Arusha — Tanzanite-One, the giant South African mining company which runs mining operations in Arusha town and Merani hills has reportedly elbowed out its President and chief operating officer here, ...

Smuggling is denying Tanzania some 80 percent of receipts accrued from Tanzanite – a precious gemstone so far only found in the country from which it derives its name. "While Tanzania exported only ...

Tanzania's four-years-old partial ban on export of raw Tanzanite seems to have been ineffective to control a large chunk of gemstone from being shipped to Asia. In July, 2010, Tanzania, the world's ...

To allow Arusha to keep some tanzanite commerce, however, there has been pressure from the city's stakeholders and gemstone merchants since the beginning of this year. This was especially true after a ...

ARUSHA – Tanzania is expected to auction tanzanite in the mining site of Mererani today in efforts to sell the gemstones on its source for the East African nation to benefit from its natural resources ...

Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of 29 miners who died of suffocation last week after an air compressor failure in a mine in northern Tanzania, state-owned radio reported on Sunday night.