Ghana: Institute Gold Festival in Ghana to Showcase Responsible Mining Practices

Oral tradition and official sources indicate that our forebears had the relative skills of their time to mine and process gold for ornamental and commercial purposes, especially, during the trans-Atlantic trade. The talents of salt miners, gold and black smiths among others were harnessed to oil the economies of the various traditional settings, localities and socio-political configurations of the time.

Metallic craft objects dating as far back as several centuries with religious/spiritual and…