Mining in Ghana, formerly known as Gold Coast, has gone on for many centuries. The history of gold mining in Ghana goes as far back as the 5th Century B. C. when the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians sailed along the ...

Cadastral surveys in Ghana often employ well known surveying equipment such as Total Station and GNSS receivers or a combination of both. These survey techniques are well-established and widely accepted. However, there ...

Carbonaceous matter in gold ores adsorbs dissolved gold during leaching and reduces extraction; a phenomenon known as preg-robbing. Microbial suppression of preg robbing activity in a carbonaceous sulphidic gold ore was ...

The Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASSM) industry is of great importance to the Ghanaian economy. It provides employment for the teeming youth directly and indirectly and produces gold for the local goldsmiths, among ...

Arsenic (As) has the potential to negatively affect soils and groundwater quality, and cause several public health challenges. It is usually concentrated and released during metal mining of ores that contains arsenic-bearing ...