Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.
Kenoli Gold Mining Company Limited
Gold Mines Company
Gold Star Mining Company Ltd
KHL Gold Dust & Bars Mining Company
Spancalinton Gold mining
Perseus Mining Ghana Limited
Gold Clearance Mart Gh Limited
Asanko Gold
PW Mining
Rhema Mining Company Limited
Strata Africa Mining And Exploration Limited
AquaGems Mining Co. Ltd
African Mining Services
Gold Fund LLC
Rhema Group
How many mining companies are in Ghana?
Ghana has 23 large-scale mining companies producing gold, diamonds, bauxite and manganese, and, there are also over 300 registered small scale mining groups and 90 mine support service companies. Other mineral commodities produced in the country are natural gas, petroleum, salt, and silver.
Where can gold be found in Ghana?
The operating gold mining companies in Ghana were Ashanti Goldfields Company Ltd., now AngloGold Ashanti (AGA), which owns mines at Obuasi, Iduapriem near Tarkwa and Bibiani; Bogoso Gold Ltd. (BGL) located at Bogoso; Gold Fields Ghana Ltd (GFGL) which owns mines at Tarkwa and Abosso; Sian Gold Mines Ltd.
What is mining and its effects?
Environmental impacts of mining can occur at local, regional, and global scales through direct and indirect mining practices.
Impacts can result in erosion, sinkholes, loss of biodiversity, or the contamination of soil, groundwater, and surface water by the chemicals emitted from mining processes.
Why is mining bad?
Across the world, mining contributes to erosion, sinkholes, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, significant use of water resources, dammed rivers and ponded waters, wastewater disposal issues, acid mine drainage and contamination of soil, ground and surface water, all of which can lead to health issues in local.
What are the 4 types of mining?
There are four main methods of mining:
underground
surface.
placer.
in-situ.
The type of mining method used depends on the kind of resource that is being targeted for extraction, the deposit’s location below or on the Earth’s surface and the capacity of each method to profitably extract the resource.