The launch event, held in Lwamgasa village, was attended by officials from the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, senior managers with the large scale mining companies AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) and African Barrick Gold (ABG), and about 500 artisanal and small scale miners.
Strata Africa Mining Exploration Limited recently championed the acquisition of Exploration Rights from the Government of Ghana and the local authority (Chieftain) over the "Greater" Dompin Area situated on the Ashanti Gold Belt in the Western Region of Ghana to investigate alluvial gold and other potential reserves. This Large Scale Exploration License covers an area of approximately 65 Km2 and is .
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Get PriceLarge scale gold mining in Ghana Ghana has had a long history of mining on a large scale dating back to the nineteenth century. The total area under all mining activities both large and small scale is 31,237 km2 representing about % of the country''s total land area of 238,608km2 (Ghana
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Get PriceThis article is one of three synthesis reports resulting from an integrated assessment (IA) of artisanal and smallscale gold mining (ASGM) in Ghana. Given the complexities that involve multiple drivers and diverse disciplines influencing ASGM, an IA framework was used to analyze economic, social, health, and environmental data and to codevelop evidencebased responses in collaboration with ...
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Get PriceBecause it is in large part an informal and lightly regulated activity, smallscale mining is difficult to measure in Ghana, but as a result of the commodities boom of the 2000s the number of miners is estimated to have tripled to as high as 600,000 between 2001 and 2011, when gold .
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