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Azumah Resources Plans Increase and Development Gold Mine Exploration Project in Ghana
Australian mining company, Azumah Resources will increase company capital to develop and exploration gold mine project. Improvement of this capital expected able to quicken exploration activity of mine in some mine locations. Mine company, Azumah focus develops and exploration of gold mine residing in Ghana.
Ghana Earning Royalties and Corporate Tax From Gold Mining Companies
For centuries, Europeans stripped Ghana of its gold deposits to such an extent that in colonial times it was known as the Gold Coast.
Pressure on oil companies grows to end gas flaring in Nigeria
For three minutes, on the day last May when Royal Dutch Shell released its first quarter earnings figures, a flame shot high into the air in front of the company’s head office in The Hague, scorching a human chain of about 40 protesters that circled it, a few meters away, to block police efforts to [...]
Ghanaians express fear over oil discovery
FEARS HAVE been expressed by some Ghanaians that the discovery of oil in Ghana might be a resource curse rather than a blessing, citing the example of Nigeria and the poor state of Tarkwa and Obuasi after several years of gold mining gold.
A cross-section of Ghanaians the Business Chronicle spoke to expressed the fear because [...]
Power Supply the Key to Investment in Ghana
LAST month’s business seminar in Johannesburg, hosted by the government of Ghana to coincide with the country’s 50th anniversary of independence, provided South African companies with an opportunity to learn first-hand about trade and investment prospects that extend beyond mining and exploration.
The seminar was attended by senior Ghanaian government officials and prominent business leaders such [...]
Ghana Government to take action Mining Companies
In a petition to be presented to the Commission later this month, the victims, led by representatives of national and international networks and human rights and extractive industry advocacy NGOs from Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, The Gambia, and Zambia will urge the ACHPR commissioners to take a serious view of the destructive activities of some mining [...]
Namibia: Gold Mining Industry Under Fire
THE mining industry has consistently refused to take responsibility for the destruction of communities and ecosystems for more than 100 years, a local civil society organisation has said.
It is against this background that the Labour Resource and Research Institute (LaRRI) published a book ‘Gold mining companies in Africa – workers’ experiences’.
Ghana: Increase Spending On Mining Communities – Chamber of Mines
The Ghana Chamber of Mines has charged government to increase its spending on mining communities, considering the improved balance of payment situation.
Briefing journalists in Accra on Tuesday at a send-off for Mr Bill Zisch, Vice President, Newmont Africa and Asia, Ms Joyce Aryee, Chief Executive of Ghana Chamber of Mines, said there was need with [...]
Uzbekistan harbors energy development plans
Russia is moving aggressively to help Uzbekistan fulfill ambitious energy development plans. Since the start of 2007, one Russian state-run energy entity has signed a new production sharing agreement with an Uzbek concern, and other Kremlin-controlled firms have moved forward on an array of separate deals.
The Uzbek state-owned oil and gas monopoly Uzbekneftegaz announced the [...]
