Obuasi
Obuasi is a city with about 130 000 inhabitants in the Ashanti Region of Ghana on the railway line from Takoradi to Kumasi.
The city is home to the most productive gold mine in Ghana.
Gold is recovered from the Ashanti at Obuasi since the 17th century. This gold was - together with the slave trade - one of the foundations for the prosperity and power of the Aschantireiches from the 17th to the 19th century. From 1890 operated Europeans here modern gold mining and the mine is still one of the ten richest in the world. Since 1965, the private Ashanti Goldfields Corporation operates (now with the South African company AngloGold merged, and now AngloGold Ashanti ) degradation. Gold mining means for the city but also a significant environmental impact, eg by arsenic in groundwater.
2010, the mineable reserves of gold in the ore were estimated with 60 million troy ounces.
Obuasi is the seat of the Diocese of Obuasi.
The football club of the city is the Ashanti Gold Sporting Club.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Eric Agyemang, football player
- Opoku Agyemang, football player
- Robert Boateng, soccer player
- John Mensah, football player
- George Owu, football player