Newmont to pour first gold on July 04

Kenyasi (B/A), June 12, GNA - Newmont Gold Ghana Limited has said it would pour its first gold on July 04 and has spent 15 million dollars on compensation for 3,000 farmers at the Ahafo Project site. Mr Randy Barnes, External Affairs Manager of the company, said the company had built 399 houses at Ntotroso and Kenyasi for the affected people.

He said this when the company took journalists on a two-day tour of its Ahafo Project site.

Mrs Carmen Letton, the Chief Mining Engineer, Mr Isaac Ofosu Kwabe, General Foreman and Ms Mawuena Dumor, Communications Manager, led the journalists to tour the Apensu and Subika pits, the truck simulator, plant site, gold house and environmental control dams. Other areas were the water storage facility, tailings storage as well as reclamation and resettlement sites. Mr Barnes said Newmont was committed to helping to improve the livelihood of communities affected by its operations and had provided skill training to about 2,500 youth. He said the construction phase of the project cost 475. 12 June 06