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This confirms why the government should not, never renew any goldmines lease in Ghana, it should be Ghanaian or Ghana government ownership, period. Above all, there is no legal obligation anywhere in the world to renew a cont ...
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Do you know the work Goldfields Ghana did for the mine to come this far? Without Goldfields Ghana, both the Tarkwa mine and the Damang mine wouldn't have been what it is today. Ghana government, please renew the lease. Thos ...
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after 30years what have they actually done for tarkwa
Ask your govt. Goldfields does not owe Tarkwa. Thy had a lease which is an agreement. The respected the lease.
@Tarkwaian.. You must be from South Africa. We are fixing our country. The mine employees will be the same. The difference will be leadership and ownership. God Bless Our Homeland Ghana.
He is speaking the truth.The company recently constructed a stadium in tarkwa. today tarkwa people can go and sit and watch matches .Today the local team in tarkwa can host Champions league matches in tarkwa this year thanks ...
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There we go again. Today all the glib talk of managing our own affairs, tomorrow they will tell us of all sorts of circumstances and so we traded at a loss. The next, all the equipment are old and breaks down easily. Next ...
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Did they do that "work" for free?
Renew what?
Obviously Akuffo Addo aka NADAA would have renewed the lease, cos some of the "renewal" kudi would have gone to the NPP for campaign and other matters.
But the NPP is now D ...
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WHY IS GHANA BUYING GOLD WHEN THE GOLD ORE CAN BE MINED IN OUR OWN SOIL? THIS MAKES NO SENSE TO ME.
WHAT ARE ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI, NEWMONT, AND OTHER FOREIGN GOLD MININING COMPANIES STILL DOING IN GHANA?
SAME QUESTION AP ...
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You are making sense but tone down
Let's take control of our natural resources after the lease expires
Beautiful
Nobody can change my mind from taking over the Tarkwa mines
Contract is over is a done deal
They have to go back to South Africa
Tarkwa mines belongs Ghana government
Now and forever
In the near future the same EOCO will be inviting some people for questioning. Hahaha
Let us wait n see. This is window dressing.
How do we know whether most of it has not been stashed? Mahama is a politically pegged person because of his relationship with the president so how do we determine the real output without the country being shortchanged knowin ...
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Massa negotiate with large miners
I know the big Gold miners in South Africa own Rand Refinery.Planning is done the previous year for how much gold will be supplied .
If we want more need to plan properly.
Businesses are p ...
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Take the mines including the Lithium mine
Foreign Banks
Telecos MTN
Petroleum
No more investors
We in Ghana are capable of managing our affairs
No more Chinese to mine lithium
Waiting for Damang Gold Mine to regain former production profile with necessary investment
Ibrahim please pay all the outstanding provident funds of retired workers in Tarkwa.
Taken too long
May God save us. I hope no arrangement to cause lancester looting is on-going.
WHEN GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER MINES, LOOTING WILL BE HIGH.
Private companies makes profit than SOEs.
If Ghanaian companies want the mines, they should show up. But mines shouldn't be nationalised. THEY WILL ALWAYS RUN AT A ...
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Ibrahim Mahama is a pseudo businessman. We could all easily become as rich as he is if we had a brother who is a president of a country.
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Can't wait to see if locally owned miners compete with foreign owned ones?
Currently production low
This will reduce noise.
Please pay the workers well.
No shortcuts
We need to proof to outside world our owned mines can do it.
Typical African curse
Politicians and owners get rich quickly Loot the mine
Exploration is reduced
Investment on the mine reduced
State takes the money from th ...
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Please fix mine and get real production.
We want mine to succeed.
Loading stockpile left will not benefit all the stakeholders
Waiting for 10000 ounces per month upwards
Work hard for against to shut up
Small vision small minds
Waiting for promises .This gold will not keep promises.Keep quite and work hard.
Settings, still gold board would come and tell us they sold all this good and still run at a lose.
THIS IS HIGHLY COMMENDABLE!
Yes, E&P keep it up. More local companies to takeover our good mines when the lease expires.
We also need value addition.