Newmont Ghana has completed and handed over resettlement buildings to 25 households which were displaced by mining activities at Dormaa-Kantinka, a farming community within the Newmont Ahafo enclave.
The people were displaced after their homes were destroyed by the Newmont Subinka East Waste dump. Initially, Newmont was hesitant to resettle...
AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi Mine has said its effort to enhance agriculture development in the Obuasi municipality is being undermined by illegal mining activities, or galamsey, despite committing US$620,000 into local agricultural programmes.
Senior Sustainability Manager, of AngloGold Ashanti-Obuasi Mine, Emmanuel Baidoo, said the galamsey activities are happening close to the...
AngloGold Ashanti (Ghana) Limited, in partnership with the Institute of African Studies (IAS) of the University of Ghana, has hosted the Seventh AngloGold Ashanti Lecture on Business in Africa, which is annually organized under the auspices of the Kwame Nkrumah Chair of the IAS.
This year's lecture, organized on a...
Indiscriminate sand winning has reared its ugly head in parts of Ashanti Region, destroying cocoa farms and farmlands.
The aggression of the sand winners pose a threat to sustainable cocoa production as farms along streams in the target areas are being consumed with or without the consent of farmers.
Investigations by...
AngloGold Ashanti (Ghana) has successfully graduated a batch of eight students from their first Graduate Trainee Programme and matriculated its second batch in a colorful ceremony held in Obuasi.
The company instituted the Graduate Trainee Programme, a developmental initiative to offer brilliant and promising students from tertiary institutions the opportunity...
Chirano Gold Mines Limited, a subsidiary of Kinross Gold Corporation, has commissioned and handed over an ultra-modern science laboratory to the Queens Senior High School, at Sefwi Anhwiaso, in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso Bekwai Municipality of the Western North Region.
The GH₵720,000 science laboratory project adds up to a number of programmes...
As part of efforts to provide sustainable economic opportunities to help boost income levels of women in its host communities, AngloGold Ashanti (Iduapriem) Limited has commenced construction of a soap production factory in New Tokunaso in the Prestea-Huni Valley Municipality.
The ultra-modern factory, which is eighty-five percent complete, will have...
The Chirano Gold Mine Limited (CGML), a subsidiary of Kinross Gold Corporation, has presented seven thousand mathematical sets to candidates sitting for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in their catchment areas.
The gesture, which among others affirms the Mine’s commitment to improving on the quality of education of communities...
The Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) 2017/2018 report has uncovered that disbursement of mineral royalties to communities affected by mining activities left a two-and-half-year gap unpaid and unaccounted for.
According to GHEITI, data gathered from the Office of Administration of Stool Lands (OASL) indicated that the last transfer of...
The Register-General, Jemima Oware, has announced the deployment of a new Central Beneficial Ownership Register for all companies operating in the country.
“We will start with the extractive industry and other high-risk sectors like banks and other financial institutions,” she noted.
According to her, a lack of information about who owns...