Illegal mining leaves behind devastated landscapes, polluted rivers, and destroyed farmlands. Stopping illegal mining is not enough, Ghana must also restore damaged environments. · Land Reclamation Projects: The government should make it mandatory for all miners to restore the land after mining. Laws must require land reclamation.
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Despite these efforts, by 2024, 60% of water catchment areas remain severely affected by illegal mining activities, according to a Ghana Water Company report. Prominent political figures like Nana Ohene Ntow have openly criticized the NPP for failing to deliver on its promise, urging voters to reconsider their choices in the upcoming elections.
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Ghana, Africa's largest gold producer, launched its first refinery in August this year. The raw gold will come from the artisanal mining sector mainly because large, predominantly foreign-owned companies supply gold mined in Ghana to refineries outside Ghana in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland and India.
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Ghana, known as the "Gold Coast," has a long history of gold mining. However, the lure of quick profits has led to a surge in illegal mining activities, wreaking havoc on the environment ...
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He said the Commission was having difficulty in controlling illegal mining in those reserves due to either large number of illegal miners, violent armed miners, or large numbers of excavators being used for mining. ... Mr …
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In the Shama District, located in the Western region of Ghana and made up of six communities where there is increased illegal mining, diarrheal cases increased from 5,000 to 10,000 in three years. It is likely that typhoid …
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Illegal gold mines have become more common in Ghana, West Africa. Barcroft Images
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The Ghanaian government formed an inter-ministerial committee on illegal mining in 2017 to draw up a regulatory roadmap on mining activities. The country also introduced drones to produce satellite images that have …
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Pictures and videos have emerged of activities of illegal mining at the boundary of the Atiwa Forest Reserve in the Eastern Region. The videos shows men busily mining thereby …
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Illegal mining, often referred to as 'galamsey,' has become a significant environmental and social issue in Ghana. The unregulated extraction of minerals not only leads to serious water pollution, deforestation, and land degradation but also …
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Illegal small-scale mining in Ghana is destroying the environment, making people ill, adding to water scarcity and damaging farmlands and crops such as cocoa. Galamsey, as it's known locally, can also include large mining firms operating against the law. It is carried out by Ghanaians and foreigners, including Chinese and West African ...
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Illegal mining aka. galamsey has been going since we found precious metals on our land. It has made some people very wealthy at the expense of our environment.
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The Media Coalition against illegal mining, which comprises major media organisations in the country, was formed in April 2017. Its role has undoubtedly made illegal mining a national issue that requires national attention. US$11.7 million for Degbiwu and Gbiniyiri licenses in Ghana
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Former chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has bemoaned the current state of most rivers in the country.
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In this report, some members of the second cohort of the Media Foundation for West Africa's Next Generation Investigative Journalism Fellowship (NGIJ) highlight the impact of illegal mining on the health, agriculture and …
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People in Ghana are protesting illegal gold mining, which has poisoned over 60% of the country's bodies of water. If illegal mining continues at the current rate, experts say the entire country ...
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Mechanized mining is causing severe damage to local ecosystems, says Reginald Guuroh, researcher at the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana and specialist in land reclamation after illegal mining.
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Ghana will need billions of dollars to treat, reclaim and restore vast degraded lands and waterbodies caused by activities of illegal miners over the years. ... Illegal gold mining has been ...
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Illegal mining, also called galamsey, has become one of the country's most pressing challenges. It threatens not only the environment but also the economy, public health, and national security.
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Galamsey, an illegal form of small-scale mining, has emerged as a pressing environmental and social issue in Ghana. The illicit mining practice involves the extraction of gold and other valuable ...
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ADF STAFF Chinese national En "Aisha" Huang is well known in Ghana as the "Galamsey Queen," a nickname bestowed by the local media to describe her status as a kingpin of illegal gold mining operations. Her arrest and recent sentencing are emblematic of Ghana's serious, ongoing problem with Chinese involvement in illegal artisanal small-scale gold
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Protesters call for government action, especially leading up to the Ghanaian presidential election in December. Protesters hold up signs reading "Greed is Killing Ghana" and "Irresponsible Leaders, Irresponsible Mining".. In …
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Illegal mining headache. For many years, Ghana's government focused on large-scale mining. Small-scale mining was neglected until 1989, when a new law was passed to legalise and regularise the ...
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Preparing to plant an oil palm seedling on a reclaimed post-mined site in Southern Ghana. Photo: Eric Nartey / IWMI. Illegal gold mining — known locally as galamsey — has been wreaking havoc in southern Ghana for years, …
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A study by Boadi et al has established that two communities Ataso and Nnwerem in Ghana in 5 years have degraded 4.4 percent of the total area of the Offin shelterbelt forest reserve in addition to some admitted farms and some farm lands fringing the reserve through illegal mining activities. Although farming remains the dominant […]
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The illegal mining has also affected cocoa production, with the Ghana Cocoa Board saying in 2021 that more than 19,000 hectares of farmland had been destroyed in key cocoa-growing areas like the ...
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Illegal mining threatens food supply because it disrupts agriculture on several fronts; land availability, loss of labour, lack of safe water, general insecurity, and more.
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With the inception of an Economic Recovery Programme (ERP) by the government in 1983, Ghana's minerals and mining sector has seen a major resurgence over the past one and a half decades.
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