Geita Gold Mine Contact: Owner, Output and Who to Ask

The Geita Gold Mine is an open-pit and underground gold operation in the Geita Region of north-western Tanzania, run by AngloGold Ashanti, which describes it as a tier one asset producing about 500,000 ounces a year (AngloGold Ashanti Q3 2025 earnings release, November 2025). There is no public inbox for the whole mine, and this page does not list personal email addresses, because they change and are often copied by scammers. It shows the official routes instead: who to write to for supply, community, investor, licence and job questions, and what to put in the message.

Below you will also find the mine’s output, reserves, expansion plans, history, the rules that apply in Tanzania, and a calculator that turns ounces, price and cost into a rough margin. A few terms first. An ounce here means a troy ounce, about 31.1 grams. AISC (all-in sustaining cost) is the cost of producing one ounce including the capital needed to keep the mine running. A Mineral Resource is mineralised rock with reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction; a Mineral Reserve is the part that has been shown to be economic after mining, processing and cost checks. None of this is investment advice.

Who owns the Geita Gold Mine and where is it?

The mine is 100% owned by AngloGold Ashanti and is the group’s only operation in Tanzania, according to Mining Technology’s project profile. The profile places it about 80 km south-west of Mwanza, and Wikipedia’s entry gives the coordinates as roughly 2.83 degrees south, 32.30 degrees east, in the Geita District. Until April 2004 it ran as a joint venture between Ashanti and AngloGold. After the two companies merged, the operating company became a wholly owned subsidiary.

The sources above describe AngloGold Ashanti’s ownership of the operating company and do not describe any state shareholding. Tanzania’s Mining Act does give the state the right to hold a stake in large mining companies, which is covered further down. If your question is legal, such as who holds the licence over a given block of ground, the answer comes from the licence registry, not from a company website.

How to contact the Geita Gold Mine through official channels

Start with AngloGold Ashanti’s official contact page and its Tanzania pages, and match your enquiry to the right desk. Use only addresses and forms published on the company’s site or on the notices it issues. Treat any message that asks you to pay for a job, a contract or a “registration” as a scam.

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Reaching the right desk in 4 steps

1. 1Name your topicSupply, jobs, community, investor, licence or media.
2. 2Find the official pageUse the company or ministry website, not a forwarded address.
3. 3Write a short messageOne question, your role, the public document you read.
4. 4Expect a processRegistration, safety and approvals take time.

• Suppliers and contractors: look for the supplier or vendor prequalification route on the company’s Tanzania pages and in published tender notices.
• Jobs: use the company’s careers portal, not social media posts or messaging groups.
• Community and land questions: write to the mine’s community relations team in Geita, and copy the district or regional authority if the matter concerns land, compensation or water.
• Investors and analysts: use the group investor relations desk. Results, reserve reports and presentations are published there, and answers to most questions are already in the documents.
• Licence and regulatory questions: go to the Ministry of Minerals at madini.go.tz and its online cadastre at portal.madini.go.tz, not to the mine.
• Media: use the group media contacts published with each results release.

Letters and in-person visits need an appointment; the mine is an active, restricted site.

If you came for a long list of mining company email addresses, a better method is to build a short list of operators from a named source, then find each company’s contact page. Our guide to mining cadastre portals by country shows where licence holders are registered.

How to write an enquiry a mine will answer

Large mines receive many unsolicited messages. A short, specific one is more likely to reach the right person.

1. Say who you are in one line, with your company, role and country.
2. Ask one question or make one proposal. “We supply drone survey services for open pits and can send a one-page capability note” works better than a general introduction.
3. Name the public document you read, such as the reserve report or a results release, so the reader knows you did your homework.
4. Do not ask for confidential data such as drill results, block models or production by pit. Listed companies cannot share these with one party.
5. Give a way to reply and a date by which you need an answer, if it matters.

Consultants selling services should also expect a procurement process: registration, safety and insurance checks, and local-content questions. Starting by reading the company’s published supplier information saves weeks.

How much gold does Geita produce?

AngloGold Ashanti puts current production at about 500,000 ounces a year and said Geita output rose 6% in the third quarter of 2025 compared with the same quarter of 2024 (Q3 2025 earnings release). Ecofin Agency’s ranking of Africa’s biggest gold mines for 2025 has Egypt’s Sukari at 500,000 ounces, and says that figure slightly exceeded Geita and Ghana’s Tarkwa, so Geita sat just under 500,000 ounces that year; the company’s own Technical Report Summary puts Geita’s 2025 output at 491,644 ounces (Ecofin Agency). The mine is therefore close to the top five in Africa but outside it.

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AngloGold Ashanti’s group cost per ounce rose in 2025

US$ per ounce, all-in sustaining cost, group-wide (not Geita alone)

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Africa’s five biggest gold mines in 2025 sit just above Geita

Ounces of gold produced in 2025; Geita and Tarkwa produced slightly less than Sukari

Costs matter as much as ounces. The group’s AISC rose 6% to US$1,720 per ounce in the third quarter of 2025 from US$1,616 a year earlier. The company says the increase came mainly from inflation and from royalty payments that rise with the gold price. The group sold gold at an average of US$3,490 per ounce in that quarter. These are group-wide figures, not Geita’s alone.

Geita’s reserves, expansion plans and mine life

AngloGold Ashanti reports its Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve under the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation S-K 1300 rules. Its report at 31 December 2025 lists Geita among the sites that added reserve ounces, a gain of 1.3 million ounces from exploration drilling and a higher gold price, partly offset by depletion and cost, and a Mineral Resource addition of 1.0 million ounces from drilling and modelling changes (2025 Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Report). Depletion means ounces mined out during the year. AngloGold Ashanti’s Geita Technical Report Summary, current at 31 December 2025, gives the closing totals: a Mineral Reserve of 75.69 million tonnes at 1.65 g/t gold, or 4.02 million ounces, and an exclusive Mineral Resource (the part not already counted in the reserve) of 8.23 million ounces. Its life-of-mine plan runs to 2039 ( Geita Technical Report Summary, SEC filing, 26 March 2026 ).

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Notable additions to AngloGold Ashanti’s Mineral Reserve

Million ounces added at 31 December 2025 before depletion, as listed in the reconciliation

The company has attached money and dates to the plan. In November 2025 it said ongoing investment over the next three years is expected to raise the Geita reserve by about 60% and extend the life of mine to 10 years or more at about 500,000 ounces a year. A conceptual study of a 1.0 million tonne a year mill expansion points to about 600,000 ounces a year for at least a decade, and the detailed feasibility study is due by 2027 (Q3 2025 earnings release). Miningmx reports a planned US$100 million for the expansion and exploration spending of US$50 million a year at Geita for three years, up from US$35 million a year. A feasibility study is the engineering and cost study a board uses to decide whether to build; until it is approved, the 600,000-ounce figure is a target, not a forecast.

The cost of a single ounce at these prices is a useful reference when you read plans like this. Use the calculator below with your own numbers.

A short history of Geita, from 1936 to underground mining

Gold from Geita goes back further than most readers expect. Wikipedia’s account says a German prospector found gold mineralisation in the area in 1898, and that production began in 1936. The mine produced more than 31 tonnes (about one million ounces) between 1936 and 1966, and shut in the mid-1960s after financial trouble (Wikipedia, Geita Gold Mine). Modern open-pit mining restarted in 2000.

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Geita output, 2004 to 2025

Thousand ounces of gold a year

The deposit is an Archaean (more than 2.5 billion years old) mesothermal orebody, meaning gold was deposited by hot fluids moving along shear zones. It is largely hosted in banded ironstone formation, with roughly 20% of the gold in diorite, an intrusive rock (Mining Technology). The mine’s carbon-in-leach plant has a throughput capacity of about 5.5 million tonnes a year, according to AngloGold Ashanti’s Technical Report Summary current at 31 December 2025 (an older Mining Technology profile gives 5.1 million). In carbon-in-leach processing, crushed ore is mixed with cyanide solution and the dissolved gold sticks to activated carbon.

Production has not been smooth. A wall collapse at the Nyankanga pit in early 2007 covered part of the higher-grade ore and cut output, as the profile above explains. Output fell from 613,000 ounces in 2005 to 308,000 in 2006 and recovered to 494,000 by 2011 on the figures in the Wikipedia table. Open-pit mining at Nyankanga finished in 2020, and the operation has shifted toward underground mining at Star and Comet, Nyankanga and Geita Hill, with open-pit work continuing at satellite pits such as Nyamulilima.

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Geita in Tanzania’s gold sector

Tanzania’s official Economic Survey puts national gold output for 2024 at 61,680.81 kg, about 61.7 tonnes, up 12.6% from 54,760.32 kg in 2023, and says mineral exports reached about US$4.1 billion in the year to January 2025, with gold the largest part at about US$3.4 billion (African Exponent, summarising government data). For scale, the US Geological Survey estimates world mine production at 3,300 tonnes in 2025 (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, Gold, February 2026). The Geita Region also has a large small-scale sector: the same article cites estimates that 40% to 50% of output in areas such as Geita comes from small operators.

Tanzania’s Mining Act sets the state’s share. It says the government shall hold not less than 16% non-dilutable carried interest in the capital of a mining company holding a mining or special mining licence, depending on the mineral and the level of investment, and can acquire up to 50% in total, in line with the tax expenditure it incurs in favour of the company (African Mining Legislation Atlas, Mining Act text). Carried interest means the state holds shares without paying in capital. The Act also makes it an offence to trade minerals unless the royalty due has been paid. Check the current regulations for rates, which change.

Licences, regulators and public records you can check

The Ministry of Minerals runs the licensing system. Its cadastre portal lets you search licences by holder and location, and the ministry’s site carries notices and forms. Large mines work under a mining licence or a special mining licence; smaller operators hold primary mining licences or processing licences. Before you plan work near any Tanzanian site, confirm the licence holder, the licence type and its expiry date in the portal, and get written permission from the holder and landowner before you enter land.

Prospecting for gold needs a licence under the Mining Act, and mercury must never be used to recover gold because it poisons water and people. For a general overview of how deposits like Geita are found, see our guide to mining prospecting for gold, and for the wider country picture, gold exploration in Tanzania: licences and satellite targets.

What satellites can and cannot show around Geita

The satellite view above is a Sentinel-2 image of the Geita area. Open pits, waste dumps, tailings dams and haul roads are easy to see and measure from space, and repeat images show how a footprint grows year by year. Satellites do not show how much gold lies underground. They can map surface clues such as iron staining, clay alteration and old workings that point toward ground worth sampling, and any target still needs field work and drilling before it becomes a resource. Farmonaut runs this kind of screen for licence owners and consultants; see satellite-based mineral detection or send details through the mining query form. For anything else, use our contact page.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Geita Gold Mine email address?

There is no single public email address for the mine that we can responsibly publish. Use the contact pages on AngloGold Ashanti’s website and match your question to the desk: supply, community, investor, careers or media. Do not trust addresses posted in social media groups.

Who owns the Geita Gold Mine?

AngloGold Ashanti owns 100% of it, according to Mining Technology’s project profile. Tanzania’s Mining Act gives the government the right to hold at least 16% carried interest in large mining companies, and the mine operates under a 1999 mine development agreement with the government; check the current shareholding in the company’s filings.

Where is the Geita Gold Mine located?

In the Geita Region of north-western Tanzania, about 80 km south-west of Mwanza, at roughly 2.83 degrees south and 32.30 degrees east.

How much gold does Geita produce each year?

AngloGold Ashanti says about 500,000 ounces a year, and Ecofin Agency’s 2025 ranking has it just below Egypt’s Sukari at 500,000 ounces. The company is studying an expansion toward 600,000 ounces a year.

Is Geita an open-pit or underground mine?

Both. Open-pit mining began in 2000, Nyankanga’s open pit was completed in 2020, and underground mining at Star and Comet, Nyankanga and Geita Hill has become the larger part of the plan.

How long will the mine keep operating?

The company expects its investment to extend life of mine to 10 years or more at current rates, and its current life-of-mine plan runs to 2039 (Technical Report Summary, SEC filing). That is a company target tied to converting resources to reserves.

Can I apply for a job or tender through the mine’s email?

Use the company’s careers portal and published tender notices. Genuine employers do not charge a fee for a job or a supplier listing.

How do I check who holds a licence near Geita?

Use the Ministry of Minerals cadastre portal, search by location or holder name and note the licence type, status and dates. For a legal opinion, ask a Tanzanian mining lawyer.

Can I visit the mine or take photos?

Not without permission. It is a working site with safety rules, and visitors must be approved by the company in advance.