Gold offers one of the best areas for investment. The current perceived opportunities range from former mines in the Archaean Greenstone belts around Lake Victoria, Proterozoic rocks and conceptual grass root plays in Karoo and younger rocks.
Gold exploration has grown rapidly since the 1990’s using modern technology and refined models. Investigation has mainly been focused on the greenstone belts around Lake Victoria with particular attention on the shear hosted gold mineralization associated with banded iron formations (BIF), tufts and volcano-sedimentary exhalatives.
Several "world class" gold deposits have already been discovered in the Lake Victoria Goldfields and are at different stages of development. These deposits have reached various stages of development.
Gold targets have also been revealed in the Proterozoic rocks in the Southwest of Tanzania. In this case, gold is associated with BIF, and in gneisses and granites in shear zones.