Ghana Plans Gold Refinery

The Ghana Ministry for Lands and Natural Resources has announced plans to build a gold refinery near the Kotoka International Airport in Accra.

The US$25 million refinery, which will produce 100 metric tons of gold a year, is part of the government’s plan to halt the export of raw minerals.

Ghana intends to apply the same strategy to aluminum.

‘‘What we want to do now is to have all these components in Ghana, refine into alumina in Ghana and then use the alumina for aluminum production and if there is excess, we can export the alumina for other countries to buy,” Collins Dauda, minster for mines, land and forestry, told reporters.