Ahafo Gold Mine

BIC is no longer actively working on this project.

Overview Concerns Updates Resources Contacts

Official Documents

• Disclosed Documents from the Newmont Corporation on its Ahafo project (Newmont website)
• IFC Environmental Impact Assessment for Ahafo (IFC website)
• IFC Summary of Project Information for Ahafo (IFC website)

Civil Society Analysis

• Tarnished Gold: Mining and the unmet promise of development, September 2006 (Acrobat pdf 376 KB)
• Technical Review of the Ahafo South Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, by the Center for Science in Public Participation, December 9, 2005 (Acrobat pdf 232 kb)
• Executive Summary of the Technical Review of the Ahafo South Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, by the Center for Science in Public Participation, December 9, 2005 (Acrobat pdf 232 kb)
• FIAN Report on violations of human rights to food and water in the Ahafo gold mining project, recommendations to the IFC Board, November 17, 2005 (Acrobat pdf 461 kb)

Correspondence

• IFC response to November 19, 2007 civil society letter on Ahafo North, December 27, 2007 (Acrobat PDF 379 KB)
• Civil society letter to IFC concerning compliance with IFC Safeguards at Ahafo North, November 19, 2007 (Acrobat PDF 33 KB) 
• Civil society letter to the IFC Board of Directors , June 23, 2006 (Acrobat pdf 104 KB)
• IFC response to February 17, 2006 civil society letter on Ahafo, April 21, 2006 (Acrobat pdf 236 kb)
• Civil society letter to IFC directors on social and environmental impacts, February 17, 2006 (Acrobat pdf 196 kb)
• FIAN letter to IFC Executive Directors on non-compliance with operational directive on involuntary resettlement, January 29, 2006 (Acrobat pdf 88 kb)
• Civil society letter to World Bank regarding Ahafo loan, January 24, 2006 (Acrobat pdf 156 kb)
• FIAN letter to IFC Executive Directors on Ahafo proposal, November 17, 2005 (Acrobat pdf 79 kb)

Press

• Gov't must control mining companies - NGOs, Ghana News Agency, April 22, 2007 (ModernGhana website)
• Move to augment energy delivery, Daily Graphic, March 30, 2007 (MyZongo website)
• Press Release: "Pay Us Our Compensation" - Farmers from Awonsuono near Ntotroso demands of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited, Group for Livelihood and Environment, November 2, 2006 (LiberationAfrique website)
• Dispute over Newmont's proposed gold mine at Akyem by Mike Anane, Public Agenda (Ghana), October 16, 2006 (Ghanaweb website)
• Developing countries losing in export of natural resources, Public Agenda (Ghana), July 28, 2006 (Ghanaweb website)
• Complex times for newmont, Public Agenda article, July 7, 2006 (Ghanaweb website)

Useful Web Pages

• FIAN-Germany's Ahafo page 
• Newmont Corporation's Ahafo page