Ashanti Goldfields Corporation

The Ashanti Goldfields Corporation was a gold mining company based in Ghana. The Ashanti mine, located at Obuasi , 56 km south of Kumasi, has been producing since 1897. The mine is sited on one of the worlds major gold deposits and is one of the ten largest in the world. The company was orignally state owned , but was privatized and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2004 it merged with AngloGold to create the AngloGold Ashanti company.

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• History of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation