Tanzania targets 50 percent geophysical survey coverage by 2030

GEITA: THE Tanzanian government, through the Ministry of Minerals, has strategically set plans to intensify deep geophysical surveys from the current coverage of approximately 16pc to at least 50pc of the country’s total land area by 2030.The initiative aims to increase the contribution of the mining sector to the national economy where by 2025/26, the sector’s contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had reached 10 percent, while it accounted for 56 percent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings.