The Ashanti Goldfields Corporation was a gold mining company based in The Republic of Ghana is a nation of Africa, specifically West Africa within Sub-Saharan Africa. ...Ghana. The Ashanti Mine can refer to a number of things: Mines are tunnels used in mining for extraction of resources. ...mine, located at Obuasi, 56 KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha_2, km) Kilometre/Kilometer (only km in minuscule is the correct representation of kilometer as an SI unit of length) Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management, in the field of Library and information science Knowledge Machine, the KM knowledge representation...km South is one of the four cardinal or compass directions. ...south of Kumasi is the capital city of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. ...Kumasi, has been producing since Events January 1 _ Brooklyn, New York merges with New York City. ...1897. The mine is sited on one of the worlds major gold deposits and is one of the ten largest in the world. The company was orignally state owned, but was privatized and listed on the New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. ...New York Stock Exchange. In 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...2004 it merged with AngloGold to create the world's second_largest gold producer, AngloGold Ashanti company.