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[PDF] Barrick Gold's response
While mining fiscal policy is certainly a fair issue for public debate in Tanzania it is hard to see how Tanzania’s very conventional existing mineral investment laws, including its current mining tax regime, constitute a violation of human rights...The authors [of the report] simply ignore the fact that until the Tanzanian Government established a competitive investment and tax regime comparable to other successful mining jurisdictions there was no commercial gold mining industry in Tanzania...The industry currently represents almost half of Tanzania’s export earnings.