About Us

The Federation of Miners’ Associations of Tanzania (FEMATA), a membership body accommodating all ASM practitioners counting to nearly six million people in the country, was established, registered under the laws of Tanzania on November 4, 1986, as association under the Societies Ordinance (1957). At the time mining activities in the Tanzania was a defacto exclusive domain of ASM as set forth, recognized and drummed up by the Mining Act 1979.