The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has defended government’s decision to allow operations to continue at the Damang Mine despite the absence of parliamentary ratification for its new management arrangement. The mine is currently being operated by Engineers and Planners after taking over operations following the expiration of the lease previously held by Gold Fields. Government declined to extend the former lease, with Engineers and Planners reportedly winning the bid process with over 90 percent. Speaking in an interview, Buah disclosed that government is preparing to send several pending mining agreements to Parliament for ratification, including the Damang arrangement. We are very shortly going to go into Parliament with a lot of ratification, not only with Damang Mine, but a lot of other outstanding ratification,” the Minister said. “We have already engaged the leadership of Parliament on giving them a list of ratification that we intend to...