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More and more gold mines are being located, such as in the Afar region and in the Konso woreda in south western Ethiopia. [8] On 30 August 2012 it was announced that British firm Nyota Minerals was about to become the first foreign company to receive a mining licence to extract gold from an estimated resource of 52 tonnes in western Ethiopia. [9]
In 1970, South Africa produced 995 tonnes or 32 million ounces of gold, two-thirds of the world's production of 47.5 million ounces. [2] Production figures are for primary mine production. In the US, for example, for the year 2011, secondary sources (new and old scrap) exceeded primary production. [3]
The Lega Dembi Mine is the largest gold mine in Ethiopia and is near Shakiso in Oromia Region. [1] [2] Lega Dembi has a yearly production of around 4,500 kg of gold and silver, and is owned by MIDROC. [3] Pollution from the mine has resulted in environmental conflict that has exacerbated other political and ethnic conflict in the region ...
5th-century gold coin of King Ezana.. Aksumite currency was coinage produced and used within the Kingdom of Aksum (or Axum) centered in present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea.Its mintages were issued and circulated from the reign of King Endubis around AD 270 until it began its decline in the first half of the 7th century where they started using Dinar along with most parts of the Middle East.
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The Guji live in a fertile and natural resource-rich region in Ethiopia: the Guji Zone in the Oromia Region, which is named for them. The known gold mining area of Adola , the dense natural forest of Bada Magada, the Nechisar National Park and Shakiso -Adola evergreen forests are the natural areas which have been conserved by the Guji Oromo.
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