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Obuasi mine

Obuasi mine, Ghana, underground, mining gold.

Why Obuasi is famous

Ghanaian underground gold mine. AngloGold Ashanti's 2025 filing describes it as an underground mine in its Africa Region.1,2

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Timeline

  1. 11 June 1897 listing; 24 December 1897 operationsAshanti Goldfields listed and Obuasi opened3

What kind of deposit

Orogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)

Obuasi today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Ghana

Where next

Mines

ExamplesAhafoGhana's gold: Ashanti Goldfields began at Obuasi in 1897, Ahafo North in 2025.4

Events

Led toAshanti Goldfields listed and Obuasi openedAshanti Goldfields set up at Obuasi on 24 December 1897.3

Places

Located inObuasiObuasi is about 3 km from Obuasi.1

Deposit types

An example ofOrogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)Obuasi belongs to the orogenic gold family of deposits.5

Sources

  1. Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025 AngloGold Ashanti plc (SEC)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  3. Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited Encyclopedia of Company Histories (Reference for Business)
  4. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 Newmont Corporation (SEC)
  5. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

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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