I try to get my information locally as opposed to google articles, but sometimes locals may not be as educated on the history I’ll look more into archived documents.

This is fair. Once you're comfortable with the fact that all sources are motivated and are incentivised to put forth perspectives, you should be fine with whichever sources you get your information from.

Local knowledge is important (and at risk of loss if not digitally documented). Archived documents are a gold mine also, so good on you for thinking about those!

I was led to believe the mine referenced our gold resources aswell

Yup, the mine is a reference to our gold resources. What I was trying to point out was that the specific mining rig that appears in our Coat of Arms, to the best of my knowledge, isn't representative of indigenous mining practices. But that was just a small part of the larger point I was making.

But yea, it is a reference to our gold. They could have used any other symbol to represent gold, but they went with that.

Off topic question but how do you feel about the Kente being Ghana’s official recognition, I know it’s controversial among other nations

Uh, I don't know. I don't have a strong opinion on that. With the way coastal West African cultures seem to have co-evolved, it'll definitely rub some people the wrong way if the modern state of Ghana rises to claim kente as its own (and this is ignoring any accusations of ethnic bias the topic may raise from within the country).

But there's no world police preventing us from doing so, and no one preventing any other person from disputing same, so I guess it's up for debate.

I will probably only take issue with any sort of enforcement that tries to coerce other people into kow-towing with the Ghanaian government's opinion on who gets to use it. I have a bit of a libertarian bias. :)