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City-State
  
Ashanti

Elevation
  
194 m

District
  
Atwima Mponua District

Nyinahin

Nyinahin is a bauxite mining community and small town and is the capital of Atwima Mponua, a district of city-state Ashanti.

Contents

Map of Nyinahin, Ghana

Bauxite Mining

Nyinahin has large unmined bauxite ores reserves estimated at over 350 million metric tonnes (worth over $9 billion or $9,000,000,000+) with a high content of aluminium and silica. The Ashanti people-owned Bauxite-Aluminium industry companies are Ashanti people-owned Volta Aluminum Company (Valco) based in Kumasi and Ashanti people-owned Aluworks based in Kumasi.

Transport

It is proposed to have a railway station under the ECOWAS rail scheme.

References

Nyinahin Wikipedia