Kwasi Boadu Ntiamoah, a third-year Bsc Geological Engineering Student from the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa, has won the second edition of the Quarry Life National Awards (QLA) organised by the country’s foremost cement manufacturer GHACEM Ltd.
Mr. Kwasi Boadu Ntiamoah claimed the 5,000 euro (GH₵19,941) prize at stake, as his project on “The use of vermicompost from organic food waste as a potential treat for topsoil in restoring Biodiversity at quarry site reclamation” was adjudged the best.
His closest competitor, Reuben Danso Minta-- from the University of Mines and Technology – who placed second with his project “Protecting Communities from Quarry Dust using pennisetumpurpureum as a dust-barrier to promote Biodiversity in a Mining Site”, took home GH₵11,691 (3,000 euro) while Millicent Amekugbe from the Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Science, University of Ghana), the third placed, won GH₵5,982 (1,500 euro) with her project “Implications of Edge Effects as a tool in assisting ecological succession”.
Five projects, including those of Dr. Jonathan Hogarh (Department of Environmental Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST) and Bridget Akpably (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Cape Coast) which won fourth and fifth prize respectively were selected for the QLA initiative that seeks to source ideas toward the effective management of biodiversity in all mining sites of HeidelbergCement (HC) Group, the mother company of GHACEM.
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