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Article

13 Oct 2010

Author:
ABC News [Australia]

[audio] Questions over funding for Ghana mine

The Federal Government's Export Finance and Insurance Corporation has made a $15 million loan to help expand the operations of a mine in Ghana… The loan has gone to…Perth-based [African Underground Mining Service] which will help the American Newmont company tunnel underground at the site…human rights and environmental groups…have complained about thousands of people being moved off their land and about cyanide being spilled into local waterways…African Underground Mining Services, didn't respond to calls or emails...Newmont Gold's senior director of Corporate and External Affairs for Africa, Dr Chris Anderson...says compensation was adequate...through…public, transparent process supported by Ghana law…[Regarding the] cyanide spill…"We worked with the government on mitigating and remedying them. We admitted that we made an error, we fixed the problems and we paid a fine readily and openly to the government."