Obuasi
Obuasi is a city with approx. 130,000 inhabitants in the Ashanti region of Ghana on the railway line from Takoradi to Kumasi .
The city is home to the richest gold mine in Ghana .
Gold has been mined by the Ashanti near Obuasi since the 17th century. This gold was - together with the slave trade - one of the foundations for the prosperity and power of the Ashanti Empire from the 17th to 19th centuries. From 1890 Europeans operated modern gold mining here and the mine is still one of the ten most productive in the world. The private Ashanti Goldfields Corporation (meanwhile merged with the South African company AngloGold , and now AngloGold Ashanti ) has been mining since 1965 . However, gold mining also means a significant environmental impact for the city, e.g. B. arsenic in the groundwater.
In 2010 the minable reserves of gold in ore were estimated at 60 million troy ounces .
Obuasi is the seat of the Diocese of Obuasi .
The city's football club is the Ashanti Gold Sporting Club .
Population development
The following overview shows the population by area since the 1970 census.
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1970 | 31,005 |
| 1984 | 60,617 |
| 2000 | 115,564 |
| 2010 | 143,644 |
sons and daughters of the town
- Eric Agyemang , soccer player
- Opoku Agyemang , soccer player
- Robert Boateng , soccer player
- John Mensah , soccer player
- George Owu , soccer player
See also
- Mining in Ghana for gold mining in Obuasi
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Scheen: Mining companies as all-round suppliers . In: FAZ . October 28, 2010, p. 23 ( online [accessed October 30, 2013]).
- ↑ Ghana: Regions & Cities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
Coordinates: 6 ° 12 ′ N , 1 ° 41 ′ W