A team of Ghanaian researchers has discovered a new mineral, tantalum, at Bewadze-Mankoadze in the Kibi-Winneba Belt of southern Ghana.
This mineral is found in significant quantities within an igneous rock known as pegmatite.
According to a report by Asaaseradio.com, the discovery is detailed in a paper authored by Dr.
Emmanuel Daanoba Sunkari, a lecturer at the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) in Tarkwa, Joshua Nkansah, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa (also of UMaT), and Salaam Jansbaka Adams of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development in Somanya.