Ashesi University Student Research Team Engineers Non-Toxic Biological Alternative To Traditional Mining Methods Capable Of Extracting Gold From Ore

The available talent pool amongst our homeland Ghana's younger generations is truly world-class. As a people we must nurture our talented young people's many gifts - for they are the ones who will help transform Ghana into a prosperous society.

That is why this blog is particularly keen to see the Ghanaian media highlighting the work being done at the exceptional tertiary educational institutions in our country, such as Ashesi University - which has set itself the goal of educating ethical leaders for Africa.

To progress, Ghana needs a private-sector led by entrepreneurs who place a premium on ethical behaviour and believe that corporate good governance principles ought to underpin all businesses.

Alas, a private-sector full of crooks is worse than useless - for in the long-term nothing of lasting value to society can emerge from such rogue businesses.

An example of some of the bleeding-edge technology emerging from Ashesi University, recently ended up leading to the award of the Chairman's Award and a silver medal, for an Ashesi student research team - led by Lena Rosca who is a senior lecturer - that participated in the first global synthetic biology competition, which took place earlier this month in the American city of Boston.

We hope that officials of the Ghana Chamber of Mines and the Minerals Commission will encourage players in the gold mining sector of our national economy to support the research work that won the Chairman's Award and silver medal for the said Ashesi student team at Boston.

Companies in the gold mining industry ought to fund the research work and ensure that it is scaled up and can be leveraged by the industry here and the rest of the globe. For the benefit of Ghana's gold mining sector's players, we will end this blog post by quoting from an Ashesi University blog post about the team's award-winning research work: