AngloGold Ashanti is accelerating efforts to reshape Obuasi into a thriving economic hub beyond gold mining, strengthening its focus on infrastructure, education, and industrial diversification.

The Obuasi gold mine has been in operation since 1897, when it was started by three Ghanaian merchants who brought in the heavy equipment needed to extract gold. Today, as a low gold price bites ...

Gold miner AngloGold Ashanti said on Monday it had found the body of a mineworker who went missing after a ground collapse at its Ghanaian Obuasi mine. JOHANNESBURG, May 31 (Reuters) - Gold miner ...

Hell broke loose at Obuasi, one of Ghana’s major mining communities in the Ashanti Region, on Sunday, January 19, 2025, when personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces clashed with some youth in the area.

In terms of the Agreement, Randgold will lead and fund a development plan designed to rebuild Obuasi as a viable long-life mining business with an attractive cost structure and returns.

Government will not shirk its responsibilities in developing Obuasi, a mining community in the Ashanti Region, to an appreciable standard, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated. The vision, ...

Life is gradually returning to normalcy in Obuasi following Sunday’s military clash with some illegal miners in Ghana’s oldest gold mining town. Schools and other essential services suspended ...

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. asked Ghana to redeploy troops at its Obuasi mine after an employee died in an attack by hundreds of illegal miners on the facility last week. The military withdrew from ...

The skirmish, which occurred near the premises of the Anglogold Ashanti mine in Obuasi, has left the nation in a state of shock and sorrow. Eyewitness accounts and reports from community members paint ...

Illegal miners who took over AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi operation in Ghana in January this year refuse to leave the mine despite a government order late last week asking them to stop digging for ...

AngloGold Ashanti CEO Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan welcomed the scepticism that greeted the company's decision to invest up to $590m in restarting its troubled Ghanaian Obuasi mine, which will ...