Nearly 120 years after three men called Joseph laid eyes on the gold fields of the Ashanti kingdom, Ghana’s rich seams are once more an alluring prospect for the world’s mining houses.
As many mines elsewhere grow deep, dangerous and expensive, Ghanaian production increased by 10 per cent last year, more than any other of the top 10 producer countries, many of which registered steep declines, according to GFMS, a consultancy.
