Minerals Commission is drafting wage, tender floors for mining contractors, official says

Photo credit: Reuters The Minerals Commission is developing ‌minimum wage and tender benchmarks for contract mining firms, seeking to curb aggressive underbidding as the country pushes miners to outsource more operations to local contractors, a senior official said on Thursday.

In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, Ben Birch-Mensah, director of local content at the Minerals Commission, the national regulator, said officials wanted to ensure that workers' pay and conditions would not suffer.

The ​Ghana Chamber of Mines has criticised the policy, saying contract mining should ​be optional, not ⁠mandatory.