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Mining communities must not be left without social amenities – Sammy Gyamfi
Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), Sammy Gyamfi, has called for a new approach to ensure that mining communities benefit from the natural resources extracted from their areas."We cannot continue to mine gold from the soil of our communities while poverty, lack of access to potable water, poor roads, youth unemployment and weak local economies, remain the daily reality of too many mining communities in our country," he said at the National Mining Dialogue organised by Asempa 94.
Ghana needed a new approach to managing one of its most strategic natural resources," he explained in Accra on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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