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Rio Tinto Alcan sells majority stake in Ghana Bauxite to Chinese firm
Metals Place
| The aluminium division of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto (NYSE:RTP) has sold its 80 per cent stake in Ghana Bauxite Company Ltd. to private a Chinese firm. | Financial details of the sale to Bosai Minerals Group were not disclosed. The rem...
Aker ASA sues Gov’t
Joy Online
Aker ASA, a leading global provider of engineering and other services, is to sue government for invalidating the company’s exploration and development licence ratified by Parliament on November 5, 2008. | Government should be bracing itself for a leg...
Oil company sues government
Joy Online
Government should be bracing itself for a legal tussle with Aker ASA, a leading global provider of engineering, technology and construction services, over its invalidation of the latter’s exploration and development licence ratified by Parliament on ...
Statement: Newmont must pay more for their sins
Joy Online
The Youth For Action Ghana (YAG), a Human Rights and Environmental Youth activist organization is unhappy about the minimal penalty of 7 million Ghana cedis (GH˘ 7,000,000) imposed on Newmont Ahafo mine for the cyanide spillage which occurred in Octo...
Ahafo mine cyanide spill prompts NGOs to question Intl. Cyanide Code validity
Mineweb
RENO, NV -  | Newmont Mining is refuting a news release by two NGOs claiming the mining company has been "fined millions for a cyanide spill" at the Ahafo gold mine. | A gauge malfunction caused 75 cubic meters of a cyanide solution to spil...
Newmont to compensate Ghana following mining spill
Business Journal
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Ghana not prepared for earthquake – expert warns
Joy Online
If an earthquake were to occur in Ghana today, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) will only carry dead bodies, Mr Joseph Ankrah, Schedule Officer for Geological Disasters, told Public Agenda on Friday. | According to the Officer, G...
Business & Economy
Oil facility in Niger Delta, where citizens suffer the effects of the "resource curse" say rights groups (file photo)
(photo: IRIN News)
GHANA: Slow progress on oil policy
IRINnews
web | ACCRA, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) - Ghana needs to do more to ensure that revenue from oil production, due to start later in the year, successfully reduces poverty and avoids a "resource curse", according to civil society leaders worried that safeguards are either inadequate or absent. | Oil revenue is expected to add up to US$1 billion per year ...
Gold Trading
Gold market zouq (souq, souk) in Dubai deira, UAE, November 2007
(photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis)
Gold extends gains late as dollar falls
The Guardian
* Dollar weakens versus the euro, boosting interest in gold * ETF interest eyed after outflows in January * Anglo American urges working together on SAfrican power (Recasts; updates with closing prices, adds New York comment) By Carole Vaprean and Jan Harvey NEW YORK/LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Gold prices rose Tuesday, hitting a near two-week high a...
Ghana News
Egyptian People Celebrity - African Nation Cup - Football Win
(photo: WN / Hend Fawzi )
Egypt climb Fifa rankings
Al Jazeera
| Africa Cup of Nations winners Egypt have surged up Fifa's latest world rankings, with their third straight continental title lifting them 14 places to the No 10 position. | European champions Spain kept the top spot in the rankings, followed by Brazil and Netherlands. | World champions Italy are fourth and Portugal are fifth. | The top nine was u...



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