Having recently won the 2023 award by the Times Higher Education for the best university in the world for Quality Education (SDG Goal 4), KNUST and Amira African Centre of Excellence (for full value processing) have held fruitful discussions aimed at establishing a legacy project in mining and process engineering on June 1, 2023.
Vice Chancellor, Prof. Rita Akosua Dickson; Prof. George Obeng, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering and representing the Provost of the College of Engineering; Emeritus Prof. Francis Warnings Yao Momade of Materials Engineering Department; and Prof. Daniel Duah, Dean of International Programmes Office and Associate Professor of Architecture on the one hand and Mr. Anthony Anyimadu, an alumnus of KNUST and Vice President, Mineral Processing of Amira Global and Head of Amira Africa on the other have held fruitful discussions about a legacy project in mining.
Amira Global, formerly known as the Australian Mineral Industry Research Association, is an independent global not-for-profit organisation representing members from the resources industry seeking to enhance, sustain and deliver transformational research and development, innovation and implementation to the benefit of society. Amira focuses on improving the efficiency, productivity, and sustainability of mining operations.
The legacy project involves KNUST, University of Mines and Technology - Tarkwa, University of Ghana, and Amira (including a host of its worldwide mining producer and equipment supply company members). Key objective is African skills upgrade enabled by world class facilities with scale and scope to enable practical participation by KNUST and other participants in the mining and engineering life cycle. This includes design, optimization support, and testing of equipment and consumables for local suppliers in the supply chain. The facilities and technical collaboration cover traditional gold mineral exploitation as well as critical minerals flowsheet development and testing.
Vice Chancellor Dickson gave her blessing to such an important and impactful legacy project and charged the KNUST team to work with Amira to ensure the realization of the project.
With KNUST at lead in this impactful legacy project, we invite all stakeholders to join forces with us.
