Iron ore has been discovered in five districts of the Oti Region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This was announced by the Regional Minister, Joshua G. Makubu during a press engagement on Sunday, October 9, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The iron has been found in the Guan, Biakoye, Jasikan, Kadjebi and Krachi East districts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCurrently we are at a stage the technical people will call it mineral resource estimation to get the actual tonnage available on the land before mining can start,\u201d the Minister disclosed.<\/p>\n Joshua G. Makubu was hopeful the discovery of the mineral will boost Ghana\u2019s economy and industrialization.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to advise people in Accra to start looking for land in the Oti Region because what is going to take Ghana from our current state to a very industrialized nation has been found in the Oti Region and that is the iron ore\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There is already collaboration between the Ghana Integrated Iron Ore Development and the Geological Service Department for further arrangements on the discovery pending the mining of the natural resource.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Minister added that, private investors have also begun committing funds towards the commercialization of the mineral.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you want to establish a steel company, don\u2019t be focusing too much on Tema. Come to the Oti Region\u201d, he stressed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Ghana Geological Survey Authority led the discovery of large quantities of Iron ore deposits. The Iron ore is 55.22 weight percent and of a higher grade.<\/p>\n Oti Regional Minister, Joshua G. Makubu said the government is determined to provide value to the raw commodity and would ensure that the full value chain is retained in the region and country at large.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iron ore has been discovered in five districts of the Oti Region.\u00a0 This was announced by the Regional Minister, Joshua G. Makubu during a press engagement on Sunday, October 9, 2022.\u00a0 The iron has been found in the Guan, Biakoye, Jasikan, Kadjebi and Krachi East districts.\u00a0 \u201cCurrently we are at a stage the technical people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Oti-Iron-ore-.jpeg\")
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