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Citi News' Western Regional Correspondent, Obrempong Yaw Ampofo, has been adjudged the 2nd Best Mining Reporter ( 1 st Runnerup), at the 2018 Ghana Mining Industry Awards. Obrempong's online analysis of the mining angle to the issues that clouded the death of late Major Adam Maxwell Mahama in May 2017, won him the recognition by the adjudiing board of the Ghana Mining Industry Awards.

 · Ghana's Minerals and Mining Act came into effect in 2006, and underwent improvements in 2014 to address an ongoing problem in the country's mining industry: illegal gold mining.

 · Illegal mining biggest threat to the cocoa industry – CRIG boss. Dr Francis Padi, Acting Executive Director of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), says illegal mining, popularly called galamsey, is the biggest threat to the sustainability of the cocoa industry. He said without illegal mining and its huge negative impact on the cocoa ...

Ghana's first lady has offered to refund all the allowances she has received since the president assumed office in 2017, following a public outcry over salaries.

 · ExChamber of Mines boss, Toni Aubynn, takes aim at illegal mining Created by Toni Aubynn, former CEO of the Chamber of Mines and the Ghana Minerals Commission, the Africa Institute for Extractive Industries is developing a strategy to help the Accra authorities better manage the mining sector, especially illegal miners, known as galamseys.

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Sixty percent of Ghana's water bodies are now polluted, largely due to illegal mining activities. Ghana is the leading producer of gold in Africa and about 35% of it is extracted by smallscale ...

 · Ghana. Current and comprehensive mining and industrial, market data and investing news in Ghana. Aug 2021 . 6 Aug. Markets.

 · Mining around Ghana's cocoa farms is an added injury to an already volatile industry. In New York cocoa prices hit a 10yearlow in April. Farmers also .

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Mining industry in Ghana gets major boost with new SGS lab. Mar 27, 2020The mining industry in Ghana and the West African Subregion will soon receive a major boost following the establishment of a worldclass Geochemical Laboratory at Tarkwa in the Western region of Ghana by SGS Ghana Limited.

 · Precious Metals Mining in Ghana to 2020 A Focus on the Gold Industry Featuring Newmont Mining, Gold Fields, AngloGold Ashanti Kinross Gold Research and Markets February 03, 2016 12:31 PM ...

 · Mining graduates get wined and dined as industry fights to fill positions. Ryan Stewart is a mining engineering student in the midst of the industry's latest boom. (. Generous Friday night bar ...

 · The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Mr Sulemanu Koney has described the mining industry as the bulwark of the country's socioeconomic development.

Koforidua, Aug. 9, GNA Mr James Adjei, an official of the Minerals Commission, has called on Ghanaians to invest in the mining industry to enable the country to fully benefit from proceeds from ...

 · Ghana is the largest gold producer in Africa and the eighth largest in the world as of 2020. In 2018, gold production accounted for over % of world gold production with an outturn of almost 5 million oz up from 2015 outturn of 3,623,740 oz. Diamond production has been on a decline. Production in 2009 of 376,000 carats has slowed to 100, 328 ...