Ghana must lead its lithium future - Dr John Kpikpi

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  • KY 17 hours ago

    Dr. Kpikpi I agree with you 100%. Is mining a rocket science or space exploration that over several years of mining in Ghana we mine our own Lithium? How can you the owner of the resource talk about 5% is our leaders thinking ...
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  • Mensah 17 hours ago

    Talk is cheap Let's start with our gold Manganese and bauxite mines.The example of Heath Goldfields gives local content a very bad name.We can't even mobilize resources to mine the massive refractory ore reserves in the Adamu ...
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  • sam 12 hours ago

    It is not about talk is cheap. It is about action. We all have to join IN OUR SMALL WAY. Dont be a coward sitting at the back and complaining or finding escuses-ok?

  • SA 16 hours ago

    We basically give away our minerals to foreign investors for free, then we go to the international market for loans to feed ourselves, backwards approach from start to finish. We are living and behaving as if we are slaves, n ...
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  • Dan Asiedu 16 hours ago

    Mining experts abound in Ghana but cannot do basic things in the sector.
    Miners pa Corporate Tax Royalty Sustainability Tax Corporate vsocial responsibility programs etc
    Lithium Mining is not a money maker like Gold Copp ...
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  • Ben 16 hours ago

    Small Scale Mining we could not protect as country Chinese foreign players etc but we want to get into flavour of the day minerals
    Lithium projects stopped in Australia USA Serbia Argentina etc Saudi Arabia also looking to ...
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  • Ekd 15 hours ago

    Simply let whoever wants it to setup the factory in Ghana to process it and export the end product to whatever country that needs/wants it. Value has to be added to our natural resources before they leave the country in order ...
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  • Chaddar is the Answer 14 hours ago

    All mines should be 100% Ghana, we can buy the equipment or rent them to create more mines and Ghana will the happy. We need to buy all existing mines to become all Ghana. We can do it if we know what we need.
    God bless beau ...
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  • Addae 12 hours ago

    How are we going to raise Capital for projects? Heath Goldfields cannot even buy a pump for dewatering underground.
    Refractory ore projects stalled in Ghana.What happened to Iron Ore Bauxite projects ?
    Talk is cheap

  • sam 12 hours ago

    We dont raise Capital by selling out- you dumb? We have sold out for over 70 years now- are we still not poor woto woto? We cant do the same thing over and over again and expert a different result-ok? Who told you we dont hav ...
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  • sam 12 hours ago

    We should not compromise on this at all. The time where our fo*lish leaders take their personal cuts and sell all our birth rights to greedy foreigners that give us 10 percent should be done with now and forever . We have to ...
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  • Ken Crentsil 12 hours ago

    Need success story of nationalisation of mines in Africa? Even Russia China have private with State involvement.It failed in DRC Zambia Zimbabwe South Africa some black ownership .Only success story Botswana model.In Ghana ...
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  • DR IZAL 5 hours ago

    Lithium compounds are also used in the treatment of severe depression.