{"id":3334,"date":"2019-06-26T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","slug":"tech-firms-to-check-suppliers-after-mining-revelations-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/26\/tech-firms-to-check-suppliers-after-mining-revelations-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Firms to Check Suppliers After Mining Revelations In Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Jonathan Watts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Electronics companies, including Canon, Apple and Nokia, are\nre-evaluating their supply chains following reports they may be using gold\nextracted from a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/jun\/18\/murder-rape-claims-of-contamination-tanzanian-goldmine\">Tanzanian\nmine that has been&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/jun\/18\/murder-rape-claims-of-contamination-tanzanian-goldmine\">criticized\nfor environmental failures<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past 10 years, at the North Mara goldmine \u2013 which is\noperated by London-listed Acacia&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/mining\">Mining<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013\nthere have been more than a dozen killings of intruding locals by security\npersonnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More recently, the Tanzanian government has imposed penalties on\nthe mine and ordered the operators to build an alternative to its tailings\nreservoir, which is used to store the byproducts of mining. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/jun\/18\/tech-firms-check-suppliers-mining-revelations-tanzania\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Watts Electronics companies, including Canon, Apple and Nokia, are re-evaluating their supply chains following reports they may be using gold extracted from a&nbsp;Tanzanian mine that has been&nbsp;criticized for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}