Ghana’s mining minister will fly into Australia this week facing a barrage of questions over the government’s role in supporting a deadly Chinese state-linked mine, Shaanxi, and a $395 million lawsuit by Australian miner Cassius.
Samuel Jinapor, Ghana’s minister for natural resources, and the head of the Ghanaian Minerals Commission, Martin Kwaku Ayisi, will speak at the Africa Down Under conference in Perth on Thursday.There they are expected to be confronted by Cassius directors in a last-ditch push for negotiations ahead of legal action in London later this year.
Cassius has taken the Shaanxi mining company to a local court, but the case has been bogged down in delays and claims of corruption. Shaanxi has denied the allegations. Jinapor became a minister in March 2021, two years after miners were allegedly gassed to stop them from taking gold at the site and four years after Shaanxi’s alleged theft from Cassius was first detected. Ayisi joined the Minerals Commission in September 2021. Both incidents have taken place under the government of President Nana Akufo-Addo. Jinapor and Ayisi will be spruiking Ghan’s mining investment opportunities at Perth’s Pan Pacific Hotel this week.
Bugre Samuel Sapak, the chairman of local advocacy group the Concerned Citizens of Talensi accused the company of destroying the community.
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