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Nyinahin

Nyinahin
Mining community and District Capital
Nyinahin is located in Ashanti
Nyinahin
Nyinahin
Location of Nyinahin within Ashanti
Coordinates: 06°36′00″N 02°07′00″W / 6.60000°N 2.11667°W / 6.60000; -2.11667
City-State Ashanti
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 / 6.60000; -2.11667


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