In line with its commitment to promote quality education in its host communities, AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine has inaugurated a two-unit two-bedroom and four-unit one-bedroom semi-detached teachers’ quarters for the Abompuniso Basic School. This initiative is to alleviate the plight of teachers who have to trek for long hours...
The District Chief Executive of Adansi Akrofuom in the Ashanti Region Maurice Jonas Woode has led an operation to arrest two illegal miners who were operating in the Supuma Forest near Betenase in the Akrofuom District.
The operation team also included personnel from the Ghana Police Service and the Forestry...
The Ghana Mineworkers’ Union (GMWU) has launched its Annual Mineworkers’ Week celebration under the theme ‘integrating labour and community interest for socioeconomic development’, with a call for it to be to be institutionalised and celebrated in its birth-month (June every year) every year, among other things.
It is to appreciate...
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor has shown gratitude to Ghanaians for successfully participating in the ‘Green Ghana Day. The day, which fell on June 11, was set aside by the Ministry to plant five million trees across Ghana.
In a thank you statement, the Member...
...as country drops 2 places in investment expenditure index
A waiver of Value Added Tax (VAT) on big-ticket cost items such as drilling and laboratory services will strengthen the mining sector’s contribution to the economy, as well as cement the country’s prestigious position as the continent’s top gold producer, the...
Abosso Gold Fields Limited, (Damang Mine) through Gold Fields Ghana Foundation has presented 120 bags of fertilizers to new farmers under the Cocoa Input Support Programme at Damang in the Prestea Huni-Valley District of the Western Region.
In the year 2017, government of Ghana changed its policy towards fertilizer support...
The members of the Council of State have said they are in support of efforts to stop illegal mining activities which have led to the pollution of several river bodies and contributing sharply to deforestation in the country.
The Council in a meeting with the Minister of Lands and Natural...
The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners (GNASSM) has lauded the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor, for his inclusion of the Association in all mining dialogues and programmes since his assumption of office.
The Director of Communications for the Association, Abdul Razak Alhassan who spoke...
The expansion of the community mining scheme introduced by the government is expected to resolve the incidences of illegal small-scale mining activities in the country, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor has said.
This approach, he said, will ensure the use of safe mining operations, environmental...
Sulemanu Koney, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines has called for collaboration between the Western Regional Coordinating Council (WRCC) and the Chamber to fashion out the development blue print to harness the resources within the region more optimally.
“If we continue to operate as business as usual...