Coal India, the world’s largest coal producer, is evaluating bauxite opportunities in Ghana as the Indian state-controlled miner eyes expansion beyond coal and to secure overseas mineral assets. The Ghana interest is part of a wider plan to establish Coal India’s first overseas trading office in...
Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO) plans to move further into Ghana’s aluminium value chain with a new continuous casting and rolling mill that will produce aluminium rods for electrical cable manufacturers. The company has already supplied test samples to Nexans Kablemetal and Reroy Cables,...
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An environmental NGO, A Rocha Ghana, has urged the Ghana government and the Ghana Integrated Aluminum Development Corporation (GIADEC) to repeal the decision to mine bauxite in the Atewa forest. A Rocha Ghana (ARG) has emerged as a committed environmental NGO providing practical conservation...
One of Ghana's most visited natural attractions is the Kakum National Park, located in the Central Region. Approximately 33 kilometres from Cape Coast, the capital of the region. This national park covers an area of 145 square miles (375 square kilometres). It was named after the Kakum River, which...
Ghana’s Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation is keen on forming a circular economy module where scrap metals and other essential wastes would act as a tertiary resource for recycling and reuse. While answering questions posed by the MP of Akan, Yao Gomado, in the parliament,...
The senior presidential advisor to the Akufo-Addo Administration, Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo stated that Ghana can generate 100,000 jobs from a $10 billion loan agreement with China. In 2017, the Chinese government committed a sum of $15 billion to support developmental projects in Ghana. The...
The price of aluminium on the London Metal Exchange (LME) dropped dramatically as a result of sluggish economic development, which further reduced the market's demand for the metal. Also, China's interest rate rise had been aided by the second wave of Covid-19 lockdowns. As a result of this, On...
Ghana, popularly known for abundant bauxite reserves, is now reportedly aiming at creating an integrated aluminium industry in the country, said Ghana Lands and Natural Resources minister Samuel Jinapor on Monday, June 13. With that aim, Ghana is running campaigns and trying its best to find a...
In the West African nation Ghana, Rocksure International Limited, a contract mining company has over the years developed a substantial capacity and flexibility for executing measures to encounter the challenges of planning, equipping and staffing several mining sites. The Accra headquartered...
On Wednesday, April 27, Hon. Samuel Abu Jinapor (MP), Minister of Lands and Natural Resources announced that aluminium has been globally identified by the government as a critical commodity for the energy transition initiative. The announcement was made while he was leading a Ghanaian delegation to...
Under President Akufo-Addo’s government in Ghana, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor has assured people for no deliberate exploitation of the Atewa Forest area. They will rather try to utilise it for the benefit of the Ghanaian people. “Government and GIADEC continue to...
The West African nation Ghana, which gained independence as the first sub-Saharan nation has invited Indian organizations in the capacity of mineral refining including bauxite among other minerals like gold, lithium, diamond, crude oil and manganese. to explore investment paths. Kwaku...
The newly appointed directors to manage the board of Ghana Bauxite Company (GBC) has paid an official visit to the multi-decade old bauxite company’s mining site in Awaso to acquaintance themselves with the mining operations. Isaac Ofori Poku, the Executive Board Chairman of Ghana Bauxite Company...
On 18 th March 2022, the international metals recycler, Romco Group which produces clean and sustainable essential metals that decarbonise the global supply chain declares its record-breaking financial and operational results for 2021. A strong Q4 performance for the company triggers to be a record...
The present global aluminium market progress is predicted to navigate probable dividends of the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO), as the Ghana government pursues to materialize for reviving the operations of the one-time centrepiece of the nation’s economy. Michael Ansah, the CEO of Ghana Integrated...
The official survey towards the activities for confirmation of commercial deposit of bauxite in the Nyinahin-Mpasaaso range in the Ashanti region commences. Rock shore Mining International with its partner company, Sahara Mining Consultants have processed to the site and started drilling the hills...
The Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources of Akufo-Addo govt. in Ghana, George Mireku Duker, who is in charge of the mining industry in the country, has delivered relief to the workers of Ghana Company (GBC) from the dismay of feasible collapse. He emphasized that the enterprise...
The chairman of Aluworks PLC, Prof Lade Wosornu stated that the Ghana Revenue Authority’s custom division has stirred to impose an additional duty of 35.77% on cheap aluminium products imported from China, that will empower Aluworks, the aluminium continuous casting and cold rolling mill of Ghana...
According to a recent report, Russian aluminium giant UC Rusal has been engaged in the prospect of investing in the Ghanaian bauxite industry. The news came after the Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources George Mireku Duker, who is also in charge of mining, held a meeting with Rusal...
Gideon Boako, an aide to Mahamudu Bawumia the Vice President of Ghana, revealed that around three-quarters of Ghana’s bauxite reserve were sold to another company by John Dramani Mahama, the former President of Ghana. The company, to whom Ghana’s bauxite reserve was sold, is associated with Ibrahim...
