Ashanti is also home to the most important gold mines in Ghana at Obuasi (50km southwest of Kumasi). Surface visits can be arranged, and the town still has an air of the gold rush days of the 1890s.
The Ashanti Goldfields Corporation is a gold mining company based in Ghana that was founded by Joseph Ellis and Joseph Biney both from Cape Coast. The Ashanti Mine, located at Obuasi, 56 km south of Kumasi, has been producing since 1897.
Gold mining company, AngloGold Ashanti, has reopened its Obuasi mines with steps to restrict certain jobs at the mines for the locals. The mines has been officially reopened on January 22, 2019, after its closure in 2014 due to some challenges with the concession and lack of capital to inject into the mines.
Guinea: AngloGold Ashanti gold mine. The complainants are artisanal gold miners, merchants and smallholder farmers, whose ancestors have lived in the Siguiri region of Guinea for more than 800 years. In late 2015 and 2016, approximately 380 s were forcibly evicted from their ancestral land in Kintinian commune to make way for an openpit...
Apr 30, 2018· Ashanti Goldfields Gold Mine Obuasi Ghana Mining Technology The gold operation at Obuasi, 200km north west of Accra in Ghana, was the major asset of Ashanti Goldfields Company (AGC), established in London in 1897.
The Anumso gold project is being optioned from Goldplat PLC, an AIMlisted company with a market capitalization of approximately US14M. Goldplat has two gold recycling operations (Ghana and South Africa), as well as a small operating mine in Kenya. Gold production across all assets is approximately 30,000 oz annually. 7
The company owns 90% of Ghana's Nzema Gold Project which produces an average of 100,000oz of gold annually. AngloGold Ashanti Limited. This company was formed from the merger between Ashanti Gold Mines Corporation and AngloGold in 2004. It owns the Iduapriem and Obuasi gold mines and has operations in over 21 countries all over the world.
Accra, December 4, 2018 AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem is set to increase gold production for 2018 to surpass a quarter of a million ounces (250,000 oz) per annum for the first time in the mine's history.
Asante Gold Corporation (CSE:ASE/FRANKFURT:1A9) is focused on exploring and developing high grade gold projects in Ghana, West Africa. We have announced the purchase of of the Kubi Mining Lease, which adjoins to the south of AngloGold Ashanti's 66 million ounce* Obuasi Gold Mine, one of the World's greatest orebodies (* premining resource).
AngloGold Ashanti (Ghana) Limited is currently on a journey to redevelop the Obuasi Gold Mine into a modern, efficient and longterm profitable operation. The underground mining operation will be fully mechanized, designed to produce up to an average maximum of 5,000 t/day of ore mined.
AngloGold Ashanti is a global gold mining company with mines and exploration projects in four different regions namely – Continental Africa, Americas, Australasia and South Africa.
Accra, December 4, 2018 AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem is set to increase gold production for 2018 to surpass a quarter of a million ounces (250,000 oz) per annum for the first time in the mine's history. This compares favourably to the actual production of 214,000 oz .
African Underground Mining Services (AUMS) has been awarded a 375 million underground mining services contract at one of West Africa's oldest mines, Obuasi, in Ghana. The fiveyear contract at the AngloGold Ashanti operation will see AUMS team up with Rocksure International, a Ghanabased mining contractor, under a 70:30 joint venture.
President Nana AkufoAddo has said the circumstances that led to the shut down of the Anglogold Ashanti Company Limited at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region will not reoccur under the watch of his administration. He was speaking at the reopening of the Anglogold Ashanti gold mine in Obuasi, which had been closed since 2014.
Ashanti Goldfields Corporation. The Ashanti Goldfields Corporation is a gold mining company based in Ghana that was founded by Joseph Ellis and Joseph Biney both from Cape Coast.
Ghana, one of the world's biggest producers of cocoa beans, is facing a crisis around dangerous and dirty galamsey, or informal, mining—which experts warn could derail its agriculture sector. Gold mining has always been a part of Ghana, from the ornate jewelry of the Ashanti kings to British colonization.
Asante Gold. Goldweight, Asante (Ashanti), Ghana, 19th century. Museum no. ... had come to control the major trade routes to the coast as well as some of the richest gold mines. Asante State then became regionally dominant and gold and slaves flowed through its state capital Kumasi.
AngloGold Ashanti's Obuasi gold mine is located in the Ashanti region of Ghana, 200 km northwest of Accra. It was acquired by AngloGold following a merger with Ashanti Goldfields in 2004. Falling gold prices in 2013 overtook hit restructuring efforts and in 2014 underground production was suspended rather than operate at a loss.
