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Ghana’s Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Hon Samuel Abu Jinapor, has reiterated the country’s Green Minerals Policy adopted last year provides the broad framework for the exploitation and management of critical minerals.

According to the Damango Legislator, central to this policy is the need to ensure that the exploitation of these critical minerals, are done in a fair, responsible and sustainable manner, and in a way that ensures optimal benefit both the Ghanaian people and the investor, while protecting the environment.

Speaking at the International Mines Ministers Summit in Toronto, Canada, he said Ghana’s Government works with the mining companies and the host communities to ensure that mining operations are done in a manner that has very minimal impact on the environment.

He said Ghana is endowed with some of these critical minerals required for the green energy transition, including lithium, bauxite, manganese, among others

Despite Media Journalist, Sampson Kwame Nyamekye who is at the conference reported that Hon Jinapor explained, even though we have been mining bauxite for close to a century, our lithium resources remain largely unexploited.

The International Mines Ministers Summit (IMMS) is a annual Summit organised by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) in partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF). 

The event brings together about twenty (20) Ministers responsible for Mines, together with captains of the mining industry, financial institutions and civil society organizations to deliberate on a chosen theme.

The 2024 IMMS is the nineth (9th) edition of the Summit, and would be held under the theme, “Striking a Balance for Success: Responsible Mining and the Energy Transition.”