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Why many of Ghana's gold miners are giving up

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  • Yaa Na 10 years ago

    Yes, gold prices should continue to fall. This is the best news for our environment, riverine bodies and the future education of our children who would stay in school and complete their education instead of running from schoo ...
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  • Nzema K 10 years ago

    Tarkwa is rather south west. BTW what do Ghana gain from the gold that is mined on our lands. I think we are bwetter off without Gold.

  • Nana Benyin 10 years ago

    We pray the foreign mining companies pack up and leave because the price is not worth their investment. This is good news for the environment, for the economy and for morality.

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    I'LL GIVE U 1. KINROSS
    GOLD PRICES HAVE BEEN GOING UP IN PRICE SINCE 2007. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ITS GONE DOWN IN VALUE SINCE THEN.

    STOCK TIPS!
    1. COMPANIES WITH INCREASING CASH FLOW
    2. COMPANIES THAT YIELD DIVIDENDS
    ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    TOO LATE TO BUY TIME OR PATIENCE with a reshuffle as the cat is already out of the bag and everybody knows ndc has no plan or agenda to develop the country . in the zeal of hatred fueled by ewe hegemony and northern tribalism ...
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  • OsaBarima 10 years ago

    Tarkwa is NOT in South-Eastern Ghana. This story is bogus, if the "reporter" had been on the ground, he'd know that that town is in Western Region, South-Western Ghana.

    The guy probably sat in his cramped apartment in Lond ...
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  • OsaBarima 10 years ago

    Tarkwa is NOT in South-Eastern Ghana. This story is bogus, if the "reporter" had been on the ground, he'd know that that town is in Western Region, South-Western Ghana.

    The guy probably sat in his cramped apartment in Lond ...
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  • JJ 10 years ago

    SHAME TO THESE LEADERS AND POLLUTED WATER DESTROYING FARMLANDS, CACER DISEASES, RIVERS POLLUTED, IT WILL TAKE A CENTURY TO CLEAN EVEN IF YOU DIG 20 FEET BELOW THE EARTH. NO AGRICULTURE. BLINK BLACK MONKEY

  • OsaBarima 10 years ago

    Tarkwa is NOT in South-Eastern Ghana. This story is bogus, if the "reporter" had been on the ground, he'd know that that town is in Western Region, South-Western Ghana.

    The guy probably sat in his cramped apartment in Lond ...
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  • GOLD MINE 10 years ago

    "...next to the roadside near Tarkwa in south-eastern Ghana".

    Ei, BBC who is writing for you now?Tarkwa is in south-eastern Ghana?

    You never made this kind of basic errors before. What happened?

    When we were young, w ...
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  • OsaBarima 10 years ago

    You're very charitable

  • HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago

    AFRICANS NEED TO SUSPEND THE GOLD PRODUCTION AND INVOLVED IN FARMING
    FOR NOW UNTIL THINGS GET BETTER

  • kotoua selira 10 years ago

    European business men are over milking Ghana and making the country to bleed serious blood. The bad business Europeans are very wicked to Africa. They take our resources and give little percentages and we are not able to make ...
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  • OsaBarima 10 years ago

    You've hit the nail on the head. We've been milked dry since the days of slavery. The only thing that changed at independence was the transfer of political power and that's even debatable.

    Economic power is held very firml ...
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  • Yahoo 10 years ago

    It will be yanked from under your feet of you keep sitting down doing nothing.

  • Kweku 10 years ago

    Yahoo, you are one of few people who seek to find a way base on your comment. People in Africa still don't grasp this simple idea that "Broadway don't give anything on platter". All the comments are placed on "oh poor me" syn ...
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  • DONATE BLOOD & KIDNEY SAVE LIFE 10 years ago

    THIS IS NOT SOMETHING NEW THE PRICE OF GOLD ALWAYS DO TRADE UP AND DOWN .

  • Jason 10 years ago

    You know..

    All the countries that sets prices for commodities often don't have a single commodity on their soil. However, they are the ones making money.

    Lol, what a funny world...

  • GOLD MINE 10 years ago

    Yeah, but the owners are too weak to demand what they deserve, so they end up getting what they deserve.
    Funny world, huh?

  • k. Agyei 10 years ago

    True genius. Whoever wrote this piecee should be commended.

  • Tarkwa is NOT South-Eastern 10 years ago

    How can you say Tarkwa is South-Eastern of Ghana. Where were you educated? And these guys are writing piece for us to read. Ah!

  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    Gold Miners have sucked AFRICA FOR TOO LONG AND TOO MUCH.
    We have to preserve the gold for our children's future.Who knows God is protecting the gold for us?
    I always say,by the time our children might be apt,up and about i ...
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  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    This story is all about the future of gold price in the World. To make his story sound sensational, he must add Kofi and Ama's adventures in Ghana. Is that the largest source of gold in the world? By the way, he never visited ...
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  • zomabi 10 years ago

    THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA MUST FORGET ABOUT ITS NATURAL RESOURCES BCOS THE WHITEMAN HAS USED COLONIALISM TO STEAL THE RESOURCES. WE DONT HAVE ANY CONTROL OVER THEM ANY LONGER. THEY ALONE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY AND CAPITAL TO EXPLO ...
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