{"id":1230083,"date":"2022-10-20T18:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/20\/reports-of-illegal-miners-trapped-underground-untrue-aga\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T18:14:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:14:36","slug":"reports-of-illegal-miners-trapped-underground-untrue-aga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/20\/reports-of-illegal-miners-trapped-underground-untrue-aga\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports of illegal miners trapped underground untrue &#8211; AGA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Stephen Asante\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Obuasi (Ash), Oct. 20, GNA \u2013 AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) Ghana has described as false reports that some illegal miners were trapped underground at its Obuasi Mine, in the Ashanti Region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAuthorities and my security personnel have conducted a patrol of underground workings in the northern area of the Mine and are not aware of anyone remaining underground,\u201d the international mining company affirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by AGA Ghana, copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Accra, however,\u00a0 confirmed the arrest of 11 illegal miners by the authorities on Tuesday, October 18, after exiting underground workings at the Obuasi Mine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny unauthorised persons who may still be underground are encouraged to leave the Mine at any time by the exit points where public security personnel are stationed,\u201d the statement noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It said intrusion of illegal miners into the company\u2019s underground workings remained a significantly dangerous activity and \u201cAngloGold Ashanti Ghana will work alongside authorities to ensure that only authorised mine personnel and contractors can access underground work areas\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company indicated that the safety of staff, security and community members remained a priority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"d27d46ca22217c077a505cda-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephen Asante\u00a0 Obuasi (Ash), Oct. 20, GNA \u2013 AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) Ghana has described as false reports that some illegal miners were trapped underground at its Obuasi Mine, in the Ashanti Region.\u00a0 \u201cAuthorities and my security personnel have conducted a patrol of underground workings in the northern area of the Mine and are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2580,4981,921,5182,11865,15176,8044],"class_list":["post-1230083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aga","tag-illegal","tag-miners","tag-reports","tag-trapped","tag-underground","tag-untrue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230083","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=1230083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}