Government is to diversify Ghana’s mineral resource base to include iron ore to fast-track the development of the country.
Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu Bio, who stated this said government is resourcing and building the capacity of state institutions like the Geological Survey Authority and the Minerals Commission to effectively carry out its mandate as the principal curators of geoscientific information on the country’s minerals.
Mr Owusu Bio said this at the closing of a mineral resource assessment training for geological surveyors from eight African countries in Accra.