Table 2.

The eleven (11) selected municipal and district assemblies (MDAs), their respective sizes, coordinates and LSM/ASM overviews within the Western Region [48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62]

	Selected MDAs	Capital	Size of MDAs (sq. km.)	Location/Coordinates (Lats/Long)	Registered SSM	Active LSM
1	Wassa Amenfi Central	Manso Amenfi	1,845.9	Details not yet available	4	Nil
2	Wassa Amenfi East	Wassa Akropong	1,558.0	Latitudes 5, 30 N, 6,15 N, Longitudes 1, 45 W and 2, 11 W	38	Golden Star Bogoso-Prestea/ Perseus Mining (Ghana)
3	Amenfi West	Asankragua	1,448.56	Latitude 400′N and 500 40′N and Longitudes 10 45′ W and 20 10′W.	61	Nil
4	Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai	Bibiani	833.7	Latitude 60 N, 30 N and longitude 20 W, 30 W	86	Noble Gold Bibiani Limited/Kinross (Chirano) Gold/Awaso Bauxite Mines, Limited/Ghana Bauxite Company
5	Ellembelle	Nkroful	995.8	Latitude 40 40″N and 50 20″N and Longitude 20 05″W and 20 35″W	2	Adamus/Nzema Mines
6	Mpohor	Mpohor	524.533	Latitude 5.1040° N, and Longitude 1.6731° W	3	Golden Star Wassa Mines
7	Wassa East	Daboase	1,651.992	Details not yet available	10	Golden Star Wassa Mines
8	Nzema East	Axim	1084.0	Latitudes 40 40′ and 50 20′ North of the Equator and Longitudes 2005′ and 2035′ west	16	Adamus-Nzema Mines
9	Prestea Huni Valley	Bogoso	1,809.0	Details not yet available	89	Gold Fields Tarkwa/Golden Star Bogoso-Prestea/ Golden Star Wassa Ltd./Sankofa Gold Limited/ AngloGold-Iduapriem Limited
10	Sefwi Wiawso	Sefwi Wiawso	1,101.6	Latitudes 60N and 60 300 N and Longitudes 20 450 W and 20 150 W.	1	Noble Gold Bibiani Limited/Kinross (Chirano) Gold Mines Limited
11	Tarkwa–Nsuaem	Tarkwa	905.2	Latitude 400′N and 500 40′N and Longitudes 10 45′ W and 20 10′W.	10	Gold Fields Tarkwa Mines/ Nsuta Manganese Mines Limited/AngloGold-Iduapriem Limited
	Total		13,758.29		320