Norwegian Contractor
Participated in
Controversial Mine
in Tanzania
By Erik Hagen
Norwatch, Oslo.
Norwatch, Oslo.
Three years after 52 mine workers are supposed to have been buried alive in a gold mine area in Tanzania, the Norwegian contractor Noremco was assigned the task of participating in the construction of the controversial mine works on the area that had been brutally cleared. Noremco says its role in the mine was limited.
Fifty-two small-scale mine workers were, according to a Tanzanian lawyers’ organization, buried alive when a Canadian company, together with the Tanzanian authorities, in 1996 filled the entrances to the mines they were working in. The area was then to be reorganized as a commercial operation.
One of the companies that participated in the construction of the mine works was the Norwegian company Noremco with headquarters in Tanzania. Noremco constructed all concrete foundations at the mine. This emerges from Noremco’s own web site.
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