Harvesting mineral riches: 1000 years of gold mining in
2002-3-1 · Today, the most significant gold-producing country in West Africa is Ghana, which accounts for some 70% of regional output (Utter, 1992).As Fig. 1 indicates, prospective gold regions are concentrated within the western portion of the country, where the Tarkwaian and Birimian belts, in strips ranging between 15 and 40 km in width, intersect and continue north to
