Women are not allowed to mine, and the men who do wear shorts or swimwear and smear themselves with petroleum jelly.

In a recent interview with a leading international industrial journalist, Professor Douglas Boateng—a globally renowned ...

Trapani’s salt flats consist of multiple, shallow, clay-bottom pools filled from the surrounding seawater. The first tank ...

“Salt is more than a resource; it is a symbol of what Ghana can achieve when we think beyond the immediate. It is a seed. If ...

Professor Douglas Boateng, a globally renowned industrial engineer, industrialist, Pan-Africanist, Chartered Director, and social entrepreneur, as well as the Chair of the Minerals Income Investment ...

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An industrial engineer, industrialist, and Chair of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) and Labadi Beach Hotel, Prof.

Professor Douglas Boateng, Board Chairman of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), has underscored the potential of ...

Seawater salinity is particularly critical; for instance, Hambantota’s high salinity levels make it highly productive for salt extraction. In contrast, the Northern and Eastern regions, as well as ...

The pre-salt region runs about 800 kilometres off the coast of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Petrobras is “re-testing” wells it previously considered dry or not containing commercially viable ...

Prof Douglas Boateng, Chair of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) and Labadi Beach Hotel has highlighted the transformative ...

If more extraction wells are built, he warns, “the whole Atacama salt flat could sink.” Francisco Mondaca, an environmental engineer and coordinator of the CPA’s environmental unit ...