Whether on billboards along the roads or embroidered on shirt collars, mining companies – including London-listed AngloGold Ashanti – are ubiquitous in this jungle hub of Ghana’s Western Region. Their presence is sometimes lost behind …
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In Ghana, a mining activist fights the gold goliaths
Newmont accused of rights abuses and betrayals in Ghana
Newmont Gold has allocated around 20% of its “core assets” to two projects in Ghana – both of which have now come under fire from local communities.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11538.
Newmont is a US company …
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Ghana: Collection of increased tax for mining companies is being delayed
Three months after the announcement of an increase in corporate tax for mining companies from 25 to 35 percent in Ghana, the raise is yet to be implemented. The tax may not be collected until …
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Ghana sets up committee to review mining contracts
Ghana, Africa’s second-largest gold mining state, has set up a committee to review stability investment agreements with mining houses. Mining companies that have had stability agreements in Ghana include London-listed AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s third …
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Mining: Growing backlash against groups who are ‘minting it’
The [gold] informal rush is indicative of a broader problem with the country’s mining sector – the sense that foreign companies have minted it from their concessions delivering few benefits either to the Ghanaian economy …
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Ghana to hike taxes on mining companies
Ghana will seek to boost revenues from its mining industry next year by hiking taxes, according to a text of the 2012 budget delivered to parliament recently. The corporate tax rate on miners will increase …
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Ghanaians demand justice from gold miners
A Ghanaian business magazine has revealed that the state holds no stake in any of five major gold mining enterprises operating in the country. Ghana’s Mine Workers Union is calling for a windfall tax to …
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PICKET!! STOP LA COLOSA GOLD MINE
2pm on FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER at the Colombian Embassy at 3 Hans Crescent, London, SW1X 0LN.
Nearest tube: Knightsbridge.
Organised by:
Colombia Solidarity Campaign
Movimiento 22
COLOMBIA, the second most BIODIVERSE country in the world, …
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Colombia to the Congo: Lust for Gold Threatens Environment & Human Rights
Nestled alongside the central range of the Andes lies the town of Cajamarca, Colombia, also known as la dispensa agricola de Colombia: literally Colombia’s agricultural larder. The fertile environs surrounding this settlement of twenty thousand …
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Human rights violations continue in Ghana’s mining sector
International humanitarian organization Oxfam America calls on Ghana’s government to address ongoing human rights violations in the West African nation’s mining industry.
The call to action comes after 23-year old Kwame Eric was shot to …
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Another shooting incident at AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine in Ghana
There has been another shooting incident at the AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine during which 23-year-old Kwame Eric of Binsere, near Obuasi, was shot by a detail of a private security organisation engaged by the Company. …
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Polluting miner gets $130m health grant for Ghana
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is backing one of Africa’s biggest mining companies in carrying out a malarial control programme in Ghana. Its decision is – to say the least – …
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