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Tamale, Ghana – Global mining conglomerate, Newmont Ghana, has held a graduation ceremony for 15 of its trainees who successfully completed a three-year Underground Graduate Leadership Programme at its Ahafo South Mine.
All 15 graduands, a significant number of whom were women, have since been employed by Newmont Ghana’s Ahafo South Mine in the Ahafo Region.
The programme, according to Newmont Ghana’s Vice President, Sustainability and External Relations, Adiki Ayitevie, was designed for graduates with background in Earth Science or other engineering disciplines.
“50% of graduates are from our local communities who joined the programme after graduating with disciplines in Survey, Geology and Mining engineering. The remaining 50% were recruited nationally”, she said in a Facebook post.
According to Ms Ayitevie, the three-year programme was structured to equip the trainees with competencies and appreciation of how systems work in an underground mining environment and build their capacities to perform high-level engineering work in various disciplines.
“The programme has enabled the graduates acquire on-the-job skills in Survey, Geology, Ventilation, Drill & Blast, Scheduling and Geotech. In addition, all of them have started their Mincom certification process.”
Newmont is the world’s leading gold company and a producer of copper, silver, zinc and lead.
The Company’s world-class portfolio of assets, prospects and talent is anchored in favorable mining jurisdictions in North America, South America, Australia and Africa.
Newmont is the only gold producer listed in the S&P 500 Index and is widely recognized for its principled environmental, social and governance practices. The Company is an industry leader in value creation, supported by robust safety standards, superior execution and technical proficiency.
Newmont was founded in 1921 and has been publicly traded since 1925.
By SavannahNewsOnline.Com/Joseph Ziem
