Mining Cadastre in Tanzania
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2003
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FIG Working Week
Abstract
Tanzania is following modern worldwide trends to reform their Mining Act and set up a
Mining Cadastre. The theory describes the Mining Cadastre as a cadastral system defining
objects, subjects and rights, but overlapping other surface rights like private or state
properties, reserves, farms and villages. The cadastre is then defined as a superposition of
rights with interrelated rules concerning overlapping, right of construction, right of use and
compensation. The Tanzania experience shows that the coordination with the National
Cadastre and the Registrar is necessary to solve conflicts with possessors or holders of other
rights. Localization of rights, implementing bacons on the field or solving underground
disputes are new tasks for surveyors. And legal background is necessary for surveyors to
negotiate with miners, villagers, local authorities and large mining industries.
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Mining cadastre, Land Act, Mining Act, Tanzania
Citation
Hernandez, A. (2003). Mining Cadastre in Tanzania, FIG Working Week