Residents of Asamama, a community in the Atiwa District of the Eastern region have embarked on a demonstration to express their displeasure over the police shooting which led to the death of two persons with several others sustaining severe injuries. The residents, mostly illegal miners, poured on the street, wearing red arm bands and chanting … Read more
The mining sector will be reclassified to enable effective monitoring and supervision and by so doing, mitigate the damage caused to the environment, President John Mahama has said. At the launch of the Gold Coast Refinery in Accra on Friday, Mr Mahama said the “mining sector today contributes 14% to government’s Gross Domestic Revenue, according … Read more
Nii Osah Mills, Lands and Natural Resources Minister, has vowed strict enforcement of the mining laws to ensure the safety of the people and the health of the environment. He said the government would go to every length to make sure that there was compliance with the various environmental, health and safety measures put in … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party’s parliamentary candidate for Obuasi East, Mr Danyansah has questioned the growing disparity between the rich and the poor amidst abundant oil and gold resources. The aspiring Member of Parliament (MP) said the decline in other previously dominant sectors of the economy and Ghana’s over dependence on imports is an indication that … Read more
Artisanal and small-scale mining offers opportunities to generate jobs, reduce poverty, and provide livelihoods, but this sector has been largely ignored by policy-makers and donors, an UNCTAD official said. In addition, poor management of this sector contributes to serious health and environmental risks, said Yanchun Zhang from UNCTAD’s Special Unit on Commodities. “Artisanal gold mining, … Read more
The Obuasi police have invited the leadership of the Artisanal Miners Association for questioning after members of the group went on a rampage Wednesday. a joint police-military reinforcement fired several warning shots to disperse the illegal miners who attacked the Municipal Assembly, political parties offices and destroyed party paraphernalia and other property. The miners have … Read more
Here is a typical example of Mahama’s incompetence Given President Mahama’s enthusiastic devotion to dishonouring promises, some of us were somehow on point to doubt President Mahama on his promise to bring to a halt the activities of foreign illegal miners (See: “We’ll deal with foreigners in ‘galamsey’ – President Mahama”; Ghanaian Times/Ghanaweb.com 13/02/2013). If … Read more
Given President Mahama’s enthusiastic devotion for dishonouring promises, some of us were somehow on point to doubt President Mahama on his promise to bring to a halt the activities of foreign illegal miners (See: “We’ll deal with foreigners in ‘galamsey’ – President Mahama”; Ghanaian Times/Ghanaweb.com 13/02/2013). If you may recall, sometime in February 2013, President … Read more
In my earlier rendition, which received a wide publication across the media landscape almost two weeks ago, I lamented on some of the dire ramifications of illegal mining and how we can turn the misfortunes of illegal mining to fortunes and hence the above title. I thank my editors and publishers for doing a good … Read more
Illegal mining remains the biggest challenge confronting cocoa farmers in their bid to increase production of the country’s leading cash crop. Farmers of local buying company, Cocoa Abrabopa, raised the concern among others at their eighth Annual General Meeting in Kumasi on Thursday. Chairman of the farmers and the company’s council of board, Pomasi Ismail, … Read more
The issue of illegal mining in Ghana has been under public discourse since the last decade and still deserves a better discussion. A discussion that can lead to a pragmatic solution and not the usual talk and forget tendencies. Ghana, since the days of precolonial era is known for its abundance of gold and that … Read more
The issue of illegal mining in Ghana has been under public discourse since the last decade and still deserves a better discussion. A discussion that can lead to a pragmatic solution and not the usual talk and forget tendencies. Ghana, since the days of precolonial era is known for its abundance of gold and that … Read more
By Denis Andaban The issue of illegal mining in Ghana has been under public discourse since the last decade and still deserves a better discussion; a discussion that can lead to a pragmatic solution and not the usual talk and forget tendencies. Ghana, since the days of precolonial era is known for its abundance of … Read more
So I’ve been away for the past few days contributing my quota as an engineer to Ghana’s Oil & Gas sector. My little escapade took me hundreds of feet into the sky to the destination I was headed making me have ample view of Ghana’s supposed beautiful land. The sight was merely scattered buildings built … Read more
Executive Chairman of the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), Ahmed Bin Sulayem, and other stakeholders, who participated in DMCC’s second Africa Dubai Precious Metals Forum (‘ADPMF’) in Accra, have agreed among a number of things that, the global air transport industry enacts a plan to ban the hand-held personal carriage of gold in favour of … Read more
President of policy think tank IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has urged government to also address illegal mining as a property rights issue to stand a chance of winning the battle against it. Mr. Cudjoe also indicated that the red tape and the cost involved in securing small scale mining licences contributed to the upscale in … Read more
The Minister for Roads and Highways, Inusah Fuseini, has decried the lack of political will which he said has allowed the rise in illegal mining known as galamsey. In an interview on Citi TV’s Politicos, Inusah Fuseini, also a former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources and head of the anti-galamsey task-force, said the country … Read more