Tanzania’s 2025 minerals value addition report identifies 14 opportunities across 11 minerals, including gold, graphite, copper, fertilisers, and rare earth metals, worth USD 7.2B–11.7B annually. The strategy targets up to 15% GDP growth, over USD 1B in tax revenue, and 25,000 jobs through local processing and infrastructure investment.
The country’s mineral sector contributed 9.1% to GDP in 2023 and 10.1% in 2024, surpassing the government’s 2025 target. Minerals account for over half of non-traditional exports and the sector employs over 6 million people.
Tanzania holds 6% of the world’s graphite reserves, and substantial quantities of rare earth elements (REEs), including neodymium (Nd) and praseodymium (Pr), which are vital to electric vehicle motors and wind turbines. Large-scale projects underway include the Mahenge and Epanko graphite mines (each over 60,000 tonnes) and the Ngualla REE Project (projected 37,000 tonnes annually). Tanzania is positioning itself as a reliable alternative to China, which currently produces over 90% of the world’s spherical graphite and 70% of REE metals.
Read more at: https://www.tanzaniainvest.com/mining/minerals-value-addition-strategy-report-2025
