The two-day conference, which began on Thursday, August 1, 2024, and will end on Friday, August 2, is aimed at engineers, scientists, researchers, consultants, business executives, students, and all those who are absorbed in mining, processing, petroleum, and the environment
The objectives are to present new developments and barter adventures and practices in mining
There was a console altercation area the console discussed blooming minerals, analytical minerals, and Ghana's accommodation for amount addition
Giving the acceptable address, the Vice Chancellor of UMaT, Prof. Richard Kwasi Amankwaa, acclaimed that the appointment is focused on creating a belvedere area researchers, engineers, academics, and those absorbed in the mining industry can appear calm to altercate their analysis and present findings
The Vice Chancellor added that "we accept authors and presenters who would booty affliction of about eighty altered presentations about their analysis and account on how to move the minerals industry of Ghana forward." The Abbot of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, while congratulating UMaT for actuality the centre of arete in the mining industry, apprenticed the university to abide to advance analysis and development and convention adapted abilities and training interventions to aftermath the requisite capacities and accessories for the mining industry
"To add amount to the analytical minerals we produce, we charge alternation bodies to crave the net-straight ability and the adequacy to add amount to our minerals locally. And we charge advance innovations that add amount to these minerals in a added cost-effective, efficient, and accessible way," he added
According to the minister, government has already put in abode a action and authoritative framework to incentivize and abutment advance in value-added activities in the mining industry
He said, "The blooming minerals policy, accustomed by the chiffonier of President Akufo-Addo, for instance, provides incentives for investments as one moves college on the amount alternation of the industry. These incentives can alone be acclimatized if we body the all-important technologies and innovations that accomplish amount accession in Ghana aggressive and cost-effective as bookish institutions." Mr. Jinapor apprenticed bookish institutions to drive analysis that will advance to the requisite addition and development of articles and casework based on the country's resources, which will arch globally accessible technology to accommodated demands locally and beyond