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Court Quashes Revocation of Mining Lease To Ibrahim Mahama

A High Court in Accra has quashed the decision by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to revoke the Mining...

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Mining Firm To Lay Off 1,500 Workers; Here’s Why

Popular mining firm, Gold Fields Ghana, has disclosed plans to dismiss about 1,500 of its workers. The massive...

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10 Hot Orders Issues Out To Prevent Menace

Owing to the disturbing menace of recurring incidence of gas explosions in Ghana, government has come up with some very...

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Our Slow Response To Emergencies Needs To Stop!

AS at yesterday, Sunday, July 30, 2017 we had been told that victims of the Tamale flood were yet to receive relief...

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Galamsey Fight Gets Tough: Military Deploys 10 Platoons To Mining Sites

The government has stepped up its fight against illegal mining activities as the Military prepares to deploy ten...

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Aisha Huang’s Ghanaian Husband Can’t Be Found – Prosecutors

Prosecutors in the illegal mining case involving En Huang, aka Aisha Hung, and four other Chinese nationals, have told...

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Aisha Huang’s Ghanaian Husband Can’t Be Found

Prosecutors in the illegal mining case involving En Huang, aka Aisha Hung, and four other Chinese nationals, have told...

Headlines

Thousands More Canadians On Evacuation Alert As Wildfires Spread

Thousands more Canadians were warned Monday they could face evacuation under threat of huge forest fires that have...

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Kotoko Accident Sparks National Debate On Towing Policy

Following the accident involving the bus of Kumasi Asante Kotoko FC running into a stationary vehicle on the Nkawkaw...

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Canada Fires Drive Thousands More Out of Their Homes

Thousands of people fled their homes in western Canada over the weekend as strong winds fanned forest fires that have...

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Managers Urged To Ensure Annual Medical Examination of Staff

The Head of the Occupational Health and Safety Department of the Koforidua Regional Hospital,  Akofa Adika-Bensah, has...

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Indonesia Tackles Illegal Mining Boom

Hulking excavators claw at riverbanks on Indonesia's Sumatra island in the hunt for gold, transforming what was once a...

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Soaring Temperatures In Portugal Threaten Firefighting Effort

Soaring temperatures threaten efforts to bring a raging forest fire in Portugal under control, officials say. The...

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‘Get Involved In Mining Finance’

Chief Executive of Ghana’s Minerals Commission, Dr. Tony Aubynn, has advised African banks and financial institutions...

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Tanzania Says 19 Years of Mining Fraud Cost 75 Billion Euros

Fraud in the mining sector since 1998 has cost Tanzania 75 billion euros ($84 billion), an investigating commission...

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Lands Ministry, Minerals Commission Sued

Gold Ghana Limited, a small-scale mining firm in the Western Region, has sued the Ministry of Lands and Natural...

Business

Government Commends Ghana Chamber of Mines

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has commended the Ghana Chamber of Mines for making...

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Mining Firm Sues Lands Ministry, Others Over Withdrawal of License

Gold Ghana Limited, a small scale mining firm in the Western Region, has sued the Ministry of Lands and Natural...

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Jobless Locals Want Ban On Chinese Mining Firm Lifted

About 500 workers of Shaanxi Mining Company Limited operating in Gbane in the Talensi District of the Upper East...