Nyinahin | |
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Mining community and District Capital | |
Location of Nyinahin within Ashanti | |
Coordinates: 06°36′00″N 02°07′00″W / 6.60000°N 2.11667°W | |
City-State | ![]() |
District | Atwima Mponua District |
Government | |
• Type | Absolute Monarchy |
• Body | Manhyia Palace Atwima Mponua District |
• Emperor Asantehene | Osei Tutu II |
Elevation | 636 ft (194 m) |
Population | |
• Ethnicity | Ashanti |
• Nationality | Ashanti |
Nyinahin is a bauxite mining community and small town and is the capital of Atwima Mponua, a district of city-state Ashanti.
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.
It is proposed to have a railway station under the ECOWAS rail scheme.
Coordinates: 06°36′00″N 02°07′00″W / 6.60000°N 2.11667°W