The Ghana Chamber of Mines has called on the government to be deliberate about developing mining host communities and not focus only on the revenue. The Chief Executive of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Dr Sulemanu Koney, said revenue from mining communities must not be left to sink in the Consolidated Fund but must be […]
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86 illegal miners who entered Obuasi mine underground in police custody
Eighty-six illegal miners who entered the underground of Obuasi Mine of Anglogold Ashanti in Ghana have been arrested by the police. They were all picked up when they exited the underground through one of the main shafts of the mining company into the waiting arms of the police and security personnel of the biggest gold […]
9 bodies retrieved from flooded mining pit at Moabok in Upper East Region
It has now been confirmed that nine dead bodies have been retrieved from the flooded mining pit at Moabok, a community near Gbane in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region. This follows several hours of rescue operations carried out by personnel of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), the Ghana Police Service and […]
Vice President Bawumia announces new fiscal regime for Mining sector soon
Government will soon introduce a new fiscal regime for the mining sector to ensure Ghana derives maximum benefit from the extraction of her mineral resources, the Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed. The paradigm shift in the thinking behind the utilisation of Ghana’s mineral resources would seek to ensure value addition to the minerals […]
Destroying Atewa Forest in bauxite deal not acceptable – Prof Oteng-Yeboah
A former Chair of the Subsidiary Body on Science, Technical and Technology Advice to the United Nations Convention, Prof. Alfred Apau Oteng-Yeboah has asked government to reconsider its decision on the bauxite mining deal in the Atewa Forest. He has therefore appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his cabinet, many of whom he […]