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...
GAWU signals COCOBOD to act or miss 900,000 tonnes target
Sefwi, Juaboso, Akotombra farms at big risk
Forestry Commission, chiefs, district assemblies sit aloof
Every week, illegal mining activities or ‘galamsey’ destroys at least 20 acres of cocoa farms in the Sefwi-Wiawso, Juaboso, Bia and Akotombra areas in...
Gold Fields Ghana Limited has held a two-day suppliers conference at Tarkwa in the Western Region for its supply chain partners.
The suppliers conference, themed ‘The ESG Culture Change: an Imperative to Building a Resilient Supply Chain through Partnership’, attracted over 300 local and foreign suppliers. Participants deliberated on issues...
Players call on gov’t for swift intervention
Local jewellers are struggling to keep their heads above water as a myriad of challenges are threatening to wipe out the industry that holds a semblance of connection to the country’s industrial gold mining sector which feeds refineries around the world.
The...
With more than 30% of the world’s mineral reserve, mining on the African continent dates back to the 15th century – currently, mining industries in Africa produce more than 60 different metals: copper, diamond, gold, gemstones, platinum, aluminium, bauxite, manganese, coal, iron ore, nickel, lead and zinc are a...
The General Manager of Shandong Gold Group - parent company of Cardinal Namdini Mining Limited - Hang Li, has assured government of the outfit’s determination to pour first gold at the Namdini project at Talensi in the Upper East Region by the 2024 deadline.
Speaking in an exclusive meeting held at the headquarters of Shandong Gold Group in Jinan, China, with officials of the Ministry of...
Employees and community members of Golden Star Resources’ (GSR) recently sold Bogoso Prestea Mine are petitioning the government to intervene in the mine’s sale due to inherent risks the deal poses to Ghanaian employees and the micro-economy of Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality.
The employees are saying the deal if allowed to...
...but sector holds firm to emerge economy’s lead export earner
Gold production in 2020 fell 12.1 percent - the highest decline since 2014 - from 4.577 million ounces in 2019 to 4.023 million ounces, the Ghana Chamber of Mines said in its 2020 annual report, citing COVID-19.
Despite the decline in...
Golden Star Resources Ltd has said it has entered into an agreement with Future Global Resources for the sale of its 90percent interest in the Bogoso-Prestea Gold Mine.
The agreement stipulates that an initial purchase price of $55 million shall be paid with a further contingent component of up to...