Bauxite

Godfried Addo Ayisi, Head of Technical Services at Rocksure International Limited, a mining company, has said the country’s bauxite resource can be mined without destroying the forest reserves. He said this could be achieved if the best mining practices and environmental protection strategies, including reclamation and revegetation were adopted. He said Ghana had over two billion metric tonnes of untapped bauxite resources at Nyinahin-Mpasaaso, Kibi and Ejuanema, except for those deposited at Awaso. He said mining those untapped bauxite ore required best practices and methods like surface mining, that would protect the fauna and the flora of the forest reserves…