Gold Fields' Tarkwa lease renewal should secure greater value for Ghana – Chamber of Mines

Companies in Ghana continued to increase their business activity in October, despite a stagnation of new orders. Meanwhile, employment and purchasing activity also improved again at the start of the final quarter of the year and companies remained strongly confident in the year-ahead outlook.

Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) PLC has launched its Green-Grow Vegetable Farmers Lending Scheme aimed at expanding access to structured agricultural financing and boosting local vegetable production.

The Ghana Chamber of Mines has backed the renewal of Gold Fields' Tarkwa mining lease, but says any extension should provide an opportunity to secure better economic, environmental and social returns for Ghana.

Ghana is exploring a new development model that could bring previously stranded and marginal oil discoveries into commercial production, with the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) seeking to pool offshore infrastructure to reduce development costs and make otherwise uneconomic resources viable.

The dEX Ghana Foundation will dedicate the final day of the seventh dEX Design Conference (DDC26) to exploring the business of design, bringing creative professionals and businesses together to address issues of pricing, contracts and sustainable careers in the creative industry.

The country has made a significant offshore hydrocarbon discovery, opening a new exploration play in the Tano Basin and raising hopes of further discoveries that could help reverse the declining crude oil production trend.