Haber Announces Proposal to Ghanaian Government to Alleviate Mercury Usage among Artisinal Miners

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Haber Announces Proposal to Ghanaian Government to Alleviate Mercury Usage among Artisinal Miners

BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY, May. 27 -/E-Wire/-- Haber, Inc. (OTC: HABE), a New Jersey-based company with proprietary technology for the environmentally friendly processing of gold-bearing ores, announced today that its president, Albert Conti, is returning to Ghana in early June for further talks with Ghanaian government representatives on Haber's proposal to help alleviate the use of mercury among Ghana's thousands of artisanal miners.

The company has proposed the use of Haber's environmentally friendly Haber Gold Process (HGP) to the government for these small-scale miners, and this return trip will review the framework of the proposal, a part of which includes grants and loans to Haber. Detailed working sessions have been scheduled with appropriate government and private entities to fully examine the proposal.

"Our preliminary proposal to the government offers a way to recover gold from Ghana's expansive alluvial deposits by helping artisanal miners use the more effective and environmentally sensitive HGP method of processing gold ore," said Conti. "Alluvial type ore is also ideal for the HGP process, yielding high extraction efficiencies and speed."

Ghana currently has hundreds of thousands of artisanal miners who use mercury to extract gold from alluvial gold deposits. Mercury not only harms the health of the miners but also presents Ghana with severe, long-term environmental consequences. Haber's HGP process extracts gold more efficiently than mercury and can do so in an environmentally safe way.

"This program has enormous potential in both monetary and humanitarian terms and we are fortunate to have the breakthrough technology to make it a practical reality," said Conti. "We are also pleased to be assisted in Ghana by our HGP licensee Gold City, Inc., who will be one of our joint venture partners in any projects initiated."

Conti noted that although Haber has resolved the technical recovery issues and the government of Ghana is extremely supportive, there remain logistical, cultural and competitive interests that must be addressed to implement a successful program.

"We believe that success in Ghana would be a watershed event for artisanal mining and would serve as a model in other African countries and gold mining areas across the globe," said Conti.

Haber, Inc. is a high technology process development company with proprietary technologies in extractive metallurgy and electrochemical separations. These technologies include the company's Haber Gold Process (HGP), a chemical system discovered by Norman Haber, the chairman of the company, for the hydrometallurgical extraction of gold from its ores. The Haber Gold Process is both non-toxic and more efficient than conventional solvents such as cyanide. This technology accelerates the gold extraction rate and may increase gold recovery from its ores by a substantial factor. The company's Electromolecular Propulsion (EMP) technology is an electrochemical process that enables the electrically controlled movement or positioning of a variety of different molecules. It is distinguished from the techniques of electrophoresis and chromatography by its wide variety of potential applications and the greater speed and control of the results. For more information, call Peter R. D'Angelo (781) 643-2727, or visit the company's website at http://www.habercorp.com.

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Peter R. D'Angelo, [REDACTED-PHONE]

http://www.habercorp.com.

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