Gold Fields Halts Ghana Plant After Environment Agency Order
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Gold Fields Ltd., the fourth-largest producer of the precious metal, halted a gold-recovery plant at its Tarkwa mine after Ghana said water discharged from the site required additional treatment.
“Gold Fields believes Tarkwa was complying with the prescribed conductivity levels in its water discharges, but is nonetheless conducting further investigations to validate this,” the company said in a statement today. The plant was stopped July 16 after a directive from Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency, it said.