Nsuta Wassa
| Nsuta Wassa | |||
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| Coordinates | 5 ° 16 ′ N , 1 ° 59 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Ghana | ||
| Western region | |||
| District | Wassa West District | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GH-WP | ||
Nsuta Wassa , Nsuta for short , also Nsuta-Wassa , Nsuta Wassaw , Nsuta-Wassaw , Wassa Nsuta and Wassaw Nsuta , is a place in the Wassa West District of the Ghanaian western region . The place is about three kilometers south of the city of Tarkwa .
In 1914, a manganese mine was discovered near Nsuta , and the African Manganese Co. began mining the ore two years later . Until the 1950s, the manganese from Nsuta was the main source of batteries . Between the start of production and 1981, over 25 million tons of manganese were extracted from the mine, but production has been falling since the 1960s. Today the mine is owned by the Ghana Manganese Company .
On October 11, 1948, after Peter Poreku Dery, the second Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson was born in Nsuta Wassa.
Web links
- Nsuta Wassa on a map of southwestern Ghana, accessed on March 9, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dadwen Education Endowment Fund launched ( English ) In: modernghana.com . Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ↑ a b Grand Reception For Cardinal Appiah Turkson ( English ) In: modernghana.com . Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ↑ municipality information: Towns in this District ( English ) In: tarkwansuaem.ghanadistricts.gov.gh . Archived from the original on August 30, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ↑ GMC supports 16 communities in Tarkwa-Nsuaem ( English ) In: tarkwansuaem.ghanadistricts.gov.gh . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ↑ Ghana Manganese Company: home ( English ) In: ghamang.net . Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ↑ Mines Safety Day observed at Nsuta-Wassaw ( English ) In: modernghana.com . Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ↑ Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson ( English ) In: catholic-hierarchy.org . Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ^ National Materials Advisory Board (ed.): Manganese Reserves and Resources of the World and Their Industrial Implications. National Academy Press, Washington, DC 1981, pp. 180-183 ( online ).
- ↑ Nsuta Mine (Insuta Mine; Nsuta-Gaywin Manganese concession; Nsuta-Wassaw), Tarkwa, Western Region, Ghana ( English ) In: mindat.org . Retrieved March 9, 2013.
