GoldBod buys 1.8 tonnes of raw gold from large-scale miners for local refining

The Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) has purchased 1.8 tonnes of unrefined gold from large-scale mining companies in the past two months as part of efforts to strengthen local refining and increase the country’s gold reserves.The Chief Executive Officer of GoldBod, Sammy Gyamfi, said the board had begun buying gold directly from large-scale miners in Ghana instead of purchasing the refined product from them after it had been processed abroad.