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March 11, 2016
New technology for
small-scale miners
Accra, Nov 17, GNA - A technology aimed at helping
small-scale miners to extract gold without polluting the
environment has been specially formulated for Ghana by a
United States of America based entrepreneur.
Mr Albert Conti, an Engineer cum Attorney, said the
environmentally friendly extraction and recovery system
known, as the Haber Gold Process (HGP) would help the
small-scale miners and galamsey operators to stop using
mercury and cyanide, which were not environmentally
friendly.
Addressing a press conference in Accra, Mr Conti said Norman
Haber, Chairman of the Haber Incoporated Company based in
the USA, discovered the chemical system for the
hydrometallurgical extraction of gold from its ore.
Mr Conti said the new technology which was being worked on
for Ghana would help the miners to address extreme poverty
because the gold would be extracted at a faster rate,
achieving 99 per cent recovery rate, with little labour
compared to the methods that were formerly used.
He said the HGP product was certified in Ghana by the Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi and the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in line with
other foreign institutions as "having positive results for
small scale miners".
Demonstrating the use of the HGP to journalists, Mr Conti
said the HGP was non-toxic, and people within the mining
communities could live harmoniously with the HGP effluent
after the extraction process.
But he was quick to add that "for now the Company has a
retention tank that would be used to collect all effluent to
ensure that it did not go into the environment.
He demonstrated the non-toxicity of the chemical, by mixing
it with a bottle of mineral water and drinking it
thereafter.
He said the association of small-scale miners in the Western
Region has already welcomed the new method.
GNA
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