Operations restarted at Newmont's gold mines in Ghana – spokesperson

10th April 2018 By: Reuters

VANCOUVER – Operations restarted at Newmont Mining's two gold mines in Ghana on Monday, a company spokesperson said, after they were shut down on Saturday following an accident in which six construction workers were killed.

Civil works on the mill expansion project at Newmont's Ahafo project, where the accident occurred, remain suspended, the spokesperson said in an email.

Newmont operates two mines in Ghana: Ahafo and Akyem.