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Obuasi

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Obuasi (ōbwä`sē), town (1984 pop. 60,617), S central Ghana. Highly concentrated gold ore is mined, and there are gold-extraction plants. Gold was mined in Obuasi by indigenous peoples as early as the 17th cent. From the late 1890s it was developed by Europeans into a modern mining town. Operating since 1965, it remains Ghana's only privately owned mine.
Obuasi 

a city in Ghana, in Ashanti Province. Population, 40,000 (1970). Railroad station on the Accra-Kumasi line. Obuasi is the center of a gold-mining region.



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PX, Stock Forum) climbed 25% to five cents after the junior miner reported results of its 2008 drilling program on the Obuasi property in Ghana, West Africa, which included 1.
The former conceded that cyanide had been spilled twice at Obuasi mine in Ghana in 2005 but argued that the pollution had now been cleaned up.
 
 
 
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