Joyce Aryee urges government to move away from gold mining and explore other minerals

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April 18, 2017 9:57 AM

Dr Aryee made the call while speaking to the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia at a townhall-style meeting organised by Multimedia Ghana on the occasion of the 100 days in office of the Nana Akufo-Addo administration.

Dr. Joyce Aryee

Dr Joyce Aryee, a former chief executive officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, has called on the government to move away from gold mining to explore other forms of minerals.

Dr Aryee made the call while speaking to the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia at a town hall-style meeting organised by Multimedia Ghana on the occasion of the 100 days in office of the Nana Akufo-Addo administration.

”…shell banks in some of the coastal areas, at Dodi, they grow and form shell banks which can be used in the cement factory and so on. I think a positive attitude towards Ghanaians in mining, focusing on not gold but other minerals that will actually aid our development would be the way to go,” she said.

“We need to move away from just focusing on gold mining and to go into other forms of minerals; one of which is Kaolin, so that we can promote Ghanaians in mining,” she added.

On his part, the Vice President agreed with Dr Aryee and said “I share those views, as a country, a lot of the time we forget how much we really have in terms of resources and you were just pointing that out again, and I think it is very important because some of these minerals are in higher demand, much higher priced per tonne than gold and we should look at them.”

Kaolin is used in the making of paint, chinaware, plastics and can also be found on construction sites.

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