These guides explain mineral rights, dealer licences, gold and base-metal export, and the difference between a mining licence and permission to trade. They are for investors who must match activity to the Mining Commission before capital moves.
Primary desk: Tanzania mining and minerals advisory
The Mining Commission broker licence is a separate, citizen-only licence to buy gold or gemstones at named buying stations and sell to dealers. Here are the law, fees with register IDs, renewal by 31 May, records, royalty, the BoT route, penalties, the foreign buyer's alternatives, Zanzibar and a worked example.
The mining licence is the Mainland's medium-scale mining right and the usual home of foreign-backed projects. Rent per km2, the Government's 16% free carried interest and local content plans decide what it costs to hold.
The prospecting licence is the Mainland's exploration right and is open to foreign-owned companies. Rent and the minimum spend per km2, which climb at each renewal, decide what holding ground really costs.
The PML is the citizens-only small-scale mining right on the Mainland. It is cheap to obtain, but the Mining Commission's 2026 enforcement makes ownership, operations and reporting the real test.
The minister has ordered a review of double charging on small-scale miners. Royalty and the 1% inspection fee are unchanged: who pays, where, and how to prove payment.
EWURA raised Mainland fuel caps from 7 October 2026: diesel up TZS 209 a litre, petrol up 261 and kerosene up 354, with Geita and Mwanza caps and a mining site budget.
After GCLA's warning to Geita miners, here is who must register chemicals, premises and imports under Cap. 182, what it costs and what the Minamata Convention means for mercury.
The Minister for Minerals says the Mining Commission, BRELA and TRA will check whether Tanzanian partners in mining service companies own their 20% in reality or only on paper.
The certificate opens a reporting file. It does not close one.
TANESCO quotes the works at cost: the date follows the transformer, wayleave and bay.
Closure is a licence condition, and the bond comes back only against a certificate.
The contract does not create the licence, and the statute outranks the drafting.
Inspectors open the licence first, then the registers that must reconcile with royalty paid.
The certificate opens the file; the Mining Commission enforces what the licence says next.
The XRF gun and the density gauge are licensed cargo, and TAEC says so before shipment.
Ownership is tested before capability: 20% to a wholly citizen-owned partner, then registration.
Who holds the licence, who signs the PSA, and what the State takes off the top.
Each stream picks its own desk: an EIA certificate grants no discharge permit.
NEMC runs screening, review and the register. The Environmental Management Act framework names…
Generation, mini-grids and captive plants meet EWURA. EIA is a sibling. Confirm ewura.go.tz. No…
Retail petroleum and LPG are EWURA-licensed activities. Municipal licences sit beside, not…
Part XII or a Tanzanian subsidiary, TRA, CRB contractor and project registration. Incorporation…
TFRA licences the dealer Product registration and import permits are different papers
A gold dealer class is not a tanzanite counter Diamonds sit tighter still
The cadastre at the Mining Commission decides coordinates class and remaining term not a KML
Buying the shares is not moving the mineral right
TOSCI certifies seed and dealers TFRA fertiliser is a different pile
Two doors Most booklet packages are still exploration A mineral name is not a mine
Pick the Cap 123 class then file the Commission sequence A dealer paper is not
Sector slides are not licences Each opportunity still has a mandate-holder
Gold is not one licence PML mining licence dealer and plant classes are different papers
A BRELA company does not export gold The live Commission class and inspection pack do
Cap 123 classes A dealer paper is not a pit Foreigners do not hold PMLs
A JV or contractor does not replace the Commission class or the 16 per cent
Reserved procurement is a Commission local-content instrument Confirm the live schedule
A plant class is not a dealer class and not a mining licence
Local-content plans and contractor registration sit beside Cap 123 They are not a pit
Battery-metal slides are not special mining licences Confirm the cadastre
Sequence company Commission class then stock Not a pit not all minerals
Mineral maps are not licences Gold is not gemstones Nickel is not a PML story
A Dodoma processing story still needs a Commission plant class and a mineral right
Three mining codes Tanzania’s dealer class does not passport into Uganda or DRC
An offtake is not a mineral right Copper dealing is not gold dealing
A dealer licence is trade It is not a mining licence and not all minerals
