Tanzania Mining (CSR) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 — GN 692/2025

Mechanism

Government Notice No. 692 of 2025, signed by Hon. Anthony P. Mavunde (Minister of Minerals), amends the Mining (Corporate Social Responsibility) Regulations 2023 (GN No. 409/2023) — the secondary legislation operationalising CSR obligations for holders of mining licences under the Mining Act, Cap. 123.

Expert Committee restructuring (Regulation 6): The committee now comprises the Local Government Authority (LGA) planning officer as chair, two mining-licensee representatives, and dedicated government officers covering mining engineering, legal affairs, environmental management, and community development. Each party bears its own expert costs.

Statutory 14-day deadlines:

• Regulation 8(3): A mining licensee must revise and resubmit its CSR plan within 14 days if the LGA requires amendments.
• Regulation 9: The LGA must submit the final approved CSR plan to the Minister of Minerals and the Minister of State (President's Office — Regional Administration and Local Government) within 14 days of receipt.

Strengthened financial-reporting and project execution (Regulation 15): Licensees must now execute CSR projects using their own procurement procedures, hire contractors directly, bear all implementation costs, and submit quarterly progress reports to the LGA and ministers.

Corrective-action authority (Regulation 16): On receiving reports or advice from the Expert Committee or LGA, a mining licensee must issue instructions and take corrective action against any contractor performing below standard or deviating from the approved CSR plan, ensuring the project is corrected, improved, and completed per the approved plan.

Context within Tanzania's 2025 resource-nationalism stack

GN 692/2025 is the third piece of Tanzania's 2025 mining-secondary-legislation consolidation wave, completing a regulatory architecture across three axes:

The three instruments together tighten the compliance burden on all mining licensees at the same regulatory moment, consistent with resource-nationalist consolidation seen across SSA peers (Zambia SI 68/2025 local-content procurement quota; Burkina Faso Loi 016-2024 Code Minier; Mali Loi 2023-041 contenu local minier).

Affected parties

All holders of primary mining licences operating in Tanzania:

• Barrick Gold (ABX): North Mara and Bulyanhulu mines
• AngloGold Ashanti (AU): Geita Gold Mine
• Petra Diamonds (PDL): Williamson Diamond Mine
• Shanta Gold: New Luika and Singida mines
• Walkabout Resources: Lindi Jumbo graphite project
• Peak Resources: Ngualla rare-earth-elements project
• TanzaniaGraphite and other early-stage explorers holding mining licences

Open questions

• Whether the 14-day statutory timelines in Regulations 8 and 9 are enforceable via existing penalty provisions in the Mining Act or require further implementing gazette notices
• Whether the restructured Expert Committee's LGA-planning-officer chairing role creates conflicts where LGAs also hold community-development mandates they seek to fund through CSR plans
• Whether quarterly progress reports (Regulation 15) feed into the broader Minerals Commission (TUME YA MADINI) national reporting database or remain decentralised at LGA level