Sep 01, 2017 Sep 01, 2017 The group of four out of the seven area MPs led by Bukuya MP Dr. Micheal Bukenya said that they have mobilized 150 MPs who have signed their motion seeking to recall Parliament from Recess over the eviction of about 60,000 artisanal gold miners in Mubende recently

Mubende evicted gold miners cry foul over President’s new directive. Monday, 14th May 2018 | Mining. Email this page. In a new twist, President Museveni has directed that 30% of AUC Mining Ltd exploration area be granted to Federation of Artisanal and Small Scale Miners and not evicted artisanal miners

Gold Mining In Mubende. The actions of government have burned out the candle of hundreds of artisanal miners who depended on Mubende. The contingent of miners in Mubende came from almost all parts of Uganda once it was known in 2008 that the district which was predominantly agrobased had huge commercial deposits of gold

Oct 18, 2019 Mining of precious stones in Uganda is mostly done by big international companies but you cannot rule out the sizeable number of local people that do their small scale mining, mosltly gold in Mubende. We refer to these as artisanal miners. Artisanal miners have not had it easy with the government and the bigger companies […]

Sep 23, 2017 Lawrence Mugisha, 30, was among those who on August 4, 2016 were evicted by the police and UPDF soldiers from artisanal gold mines located

Feb 19, 2017 Feb 19, 2017 Gold rush. There is gold in Mubende District and people from different areas have rushed in to grab a piece of the prized mineral. But while at it, the indigenous people of Mubende and the local

Feb 21, 2017 Feb 21, 2017 Once at the mines, you are greeted by the sight of gold-miners digging away as well as noise created by the tools they use to crush rocks. Since the 1980s, locals and a small number of foreigners

Museveni said that the eviction of the artisanal and small-scale miners from the gold mines in Mubende district in August 2017 was inevitable because foreign countries were gaining from the mines more than Uganda. According to him, many of the miners in the Mubende gold mines were non-citizens which made government lose out in terms of revenue

Oct 18, 2019 Mining of precious stones in Uganda is mostly done by big international companies but you cannot rule out the sizeable number of local people that do their small scale mining, mosltly gold in Mubende. We refer to these as artisanal miners. Artisanal miners have not had it easy with the government and the bigger companies […]

Feb 21, 2017 Feb 21, 2017 Once at the mines, you are greeted by the sight of gold-miners digging away as well as noise created by the tools they use to crush rocks. Since the 1980s, locals and a small number of foreigners

Feb 19, 2017 Feb 19, 2017 Gold rush. There is gold in Mubende District and people from different areas have rushed in to grab a piece of the prized mineral. But while at it, the indigenous people of Mubende and the local

Museveni said that the eviction of the artisanal and small-scale miners from the gold mines in Mubende district in August 2017 was inevitable because foreign countries were gaining from the mines more than Uganda. According to him, many of the miners in the Mubende gold mines were non-citizens which made government lose out in terms of revenue

Aug 14, 2018 Pictorial: Mubende Gold Mines Top story 14 Aug 2018, 18:51 3554 Views Business and finance Environment Health Slideshow As mining resumed at Kitumbi mining site in Bukuya Sub - county, Kassanda District, formerly Mubende following their eviction, a lot remains at stake

Nov 07, 2017 In an event that is taking place at Hotel Africana, MP Namayanja, who also sits on the parliamentary committee on natural resources, tearfully wondered why government would evict 60,000 people from Mubende gold mines just to protect a single investor

Pictorial: Mubende Gold Mines Top story Slideshow. Business and finance. Environment. Health. At the reopening, government put in place guidelines including requirements that only allowed Ugandan citizens to access and mine, a ban on the use of mercury in the mines as well as reduction in the mining time from 8:00am to 6:30pm