Energy Crisis Impacts Ghana’s Mining Industry

In Ghana, mining companies are being forced to cut energy use by 50 percent to help the country through its worst energy crisis in nine years. The country’s bulk electricity supplier, the Volta River Authority, says the cuts in the mining industry are needed as part of a nationwide power-rationing program. The cuts are expected to deeply affect the country’s foreign earnings.

Ghana is also the largest gold producer in West Africa and mining exports make up close to 40 percent of the country’s total foreign earnings.
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