The Gold Fields Ghana Foundation in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service has constructed a community clinic and nurses quarters for the Damang Community to help improve access to health services to the people of Damang and its neighboring communities. In a ceremony to officially Commission the clinic on Wednesday, 1st February, 2012, Vice-President, Operations [...]
Read the rest of this story »Africa’s largest independent oil company, Tullow Oil plc (‘Tullow’), kicked off a new business initiative aimed at attracting and facilitating further investment in the continent. Invest in Africa aims to encourage long-term investment across the continent to help build and develop local capacity, boost domestic job markets, develop skills and stimulate economic growth. The programme’s [...]
Read the rest of this story »by Jana Marais (Bloomberg) — Gold Fields Ltd., the fourth-biggest producer of the metal, said Ghana’s plan to raise tariffs on mines and introduce a windfall tax could force it to halt expansion projects worth $1 billion in the country. “The tax situation is a big concern,” Chief Executive Officer Nick Holland said at a [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Ghana Mineworkers’ Union (GMWU) has commended government for introducing a windfall profit tax on mining companies as contained in the 2012 budget, saying the Union hopes it (government) will be resolute in its successful implementation. In a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency on Monday, GMWU, an affiliate of the Ghana Trades Union, [...]
Read the rest of this story »Shares in Noble Mineral Resources were higher after the West Africa focused gold explorer announced it had upgraded the resource at its Bibiani project in Ghana and secured a government permit to allow mining to begin. The company said the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency had granted an environmental permit to the company following a lengthy [...]
Read the rest of this story »Assembly members and Unit Committee members in some mining communities have condemned the practice of surface mining, which is wreaking havoc in and around the country. The practice, according to the assembly and Unit Committee members, tends to pollute water bodies and also destroy livelihoods of people living in the mining communities.“As Assembly members in [...]
Read the rest of this story »(MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — On Oct 15 and Oct 16, 2011 – on National TV, BTV-Business Television profiles the following emerging publicly traded companies: (ii)Watch our business news show online and features via links – http://b-tv.com/the-btv-show/episodes.html Victoria Gold /quotes/zigman/520285 CA:VIT +4.55% http://www.b-tv.com/i/videos/VictoriaGoldOct11.wmv – the BTV crews travelled to the Yukon and Nevada to see how [...]
Read the rest of this story »Jubilee partners operating offshore Ghana are heading towards another success as their Enyenra-3A well, drilled to further appraise the Owo-1 discovery well, has yielded positive results, which raises higher the probability of the Enyenra field being declared a commerciality. The discovery is within the Deepwater Tano Block, which has Tullow Oil as Operator, and a [...]
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