Geita town and around

These pages will show our experiences, travels and information about the Geita town and around the mining sites near Geita in Tanzania.

• Geita Gold Trade Center - Soko Kuu La Dhahabu Geita - Tanzania
  2019-03-17 - Geita Gold Trade Center - Soko Kuu La Dhahabu Geita - Tanzania, have been officially opened and inaugurated by Ministry of Minerals of Tanzania on March 17th 2019 to provide gold miners with professional offices to sell their gold and to provide dealers and gold buyers with safe place to purchase the gold. Multiple banks are in the same building of the Geita Gold Trade Cener to provide easy funds for gold sales. Security services and government offices for payments of royalties on sales of minerals are right in the Geita Gold Trade Center. This is one among several gold trade centers that are to be opened all over Tanzania.
• 17 shovels in one minute x 4 kg = shoveling of 4 tonnes per hour
  This video shows good tempo of 17 shovels per minute, each shovel being minimum 4 kilograms, probably 6 kilograms. This rhythm of shoveling provides 4 tonnes to 6 tonnes per hour. Two persons shoveling together can easily load 4 tonnes of soil into the sluice. Even if not, then 2 people could easily load 2 tonnes of soil per hour. To load 10 tonnes of soil per hour one would then employ 4 to 10 people. This makes it possible to handle 10 tonnes per hour and 100 tonnes per day.
• Driving in Geita, Tanzania
  October 30th 2012, somewhere in Geita region, Tanzania We don't know where this really was, but video shows the conditions on streets in some of smaller towns.