Quarterly statistics will be provided by the Minerals Commission

This page provides statistical information about the work of the agencies of the mining sector in Ghana.

We suggest to use some static figures from the last annual report in the meantime.

The information displayed in the tables (and the up-date-frequency as suggested by the relevant MC officers) could be:

No. of companies (yearly) with

- Reconnaissance licence

- Prospecting licence

- Mining lease (development over the last years for all)

Summary production of the main commodities (which units?) for individual years (quarterly)

Ghana’s total mineral export for various years, separated into main minerals (yearly)

Small-scale versus total production (gold, diamonds) (quarterly)

Labour (assigned to commodities) (quarterly)

Meters of drillings by the companies (quarterly)

total merchandise export (yearly)

Percentage mining sector export over total merchandise export (yearly)

Investment figures (yearly)

Contribution to Government Revenue (Cedis and/or Dollars) (quarterly)

and a selective annual report for the public as pdf (download) (yearly)