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Ahafo mine

Ahafo mine, Ghana. Producing, open pit and underground, mining gold.

Why Ahafo is famous

Ghanaian gold operation. Newmont declared commercial production at Ahafo North in the fourth quarter of 2025. Ahafo South produced 664 koz in 2025.1,2

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Ahafo today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Ghana

Where next

Mines

An example ofObuasiGhana's gold: Ashanti Goldfields began at Obuasi in 1897, Ahafo North in 2025.1

Sources

  1. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 Newmont Corporation (SEC)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.