Tag: Artisanal mining

Energy expert, Kwadwo Poku is in agreement with First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu urging soldiers to shoot ...

The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners is calling on government to immediately lift the ban on their activities ...

A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Barbra Oteng Gyasi, says government is yet to decide on when to ...

Fifteen illegal miners operating within the Upper Denkyira East District of the Central Region have been arrested by a combined ...

Small Scale Miners Association has expressed total disappointment in the government for extending ban on small scale mining. Members have ...

The Minister of Lands, John Peter Amewu has announced he will enforce strict observance of Ghana’s law by all mining companies ...

Four alleged illegal miners are reported to have died under strange and mysterious circumstances at Akukuso, a village close to ...

A combined anti-galamsey (illegal mining) task-force and monitoring team in the Upper-Denkyira East and West Districts in the Central Region ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana has been accused of contributing to illegal mining activities, popularly known as galamsey, in the ...

A research conducted by Good Governance Africa has revealed that small-scale mining activities were affecting school attendance and performance in ...

Research conducted by Good Governance Africa, a not-for-profit organization, has revealed small-scale mining has affected school attendance and performance in ...

Ghana’s fight against galamsey might fail if government does not tighten lose ends in the current its efforts to end ...

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has named some mining firms that will from henceforth have military protection. This ...

An audio visual device believed to have been secretly planted in the office of the Minister of Lands and Natural ...

The Ghana Growth and Development Platform (GGDP) says it supports governments effort to stop galamsey, but wants this done “simultaneously ...

Hulking excavators claw at riverbanks on Indonesia's Sumatra island in the hunt for gold, transforming what was once a rural ...

It was Tuesday 30th May 2017. Many Ghanaians had woken up to viral videos of the gruesome killing of a ...

Mr Robert P. Jackson, US Ambassador has expressed the believe that formalising the small scale mining (Galamsey) would bring sanity ...

The anti-illegal mining taskforce has seized and destroyed several mining equipment from some communities in the Ashanti region. The taskforce ...

Three Russians and a Ukrainian arrested at Tontokrom in the Ashanti Region for allegedly flouting the nation’s mining laws, have ...