ACCRA, Ghana, March 4, 2003 (ENS) – Dozens of bulldozers and excavators belonging to five multinational mining companies operating in Ghana are poised to tear apart thousands of hectares of forest reserves in the Ashanti, Western and Eastern Regions of the country, if the government gives them approval to haul out what they describe as rich deposits of gold beneath the forests.
The miners, who spoke on condition of anonymity, say they discovered staggering volumes of gold deposits beneath the forests when the previous National Democratic Council (NDC) government gave them free rein to scavenge the forest reserves for gold. But, they complain, the government did not keep its promise to grant permits for exploitation of the gold they found.
Source: GhanaWeb
