commercial mining

The government is set to open up three border communities within the Bole District in the Savannah Region for commercial mining activities. The move is expected to help end competing interests which often result in dispute among communities, protect the land and river bodies from illegal miners and guard the country’s international boundary line with its neighbour, Cote d’Ivoire. The mineral resource-rich communities, originally known as Sindi, have now assumed the names ‘Dollar Power’, Dablaka and Dollar Power Accra, all located along the international boundary line between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. Due to their inaccessibility by road, parts of the…