Chinse’s African Gold Rush
I have written quite a number of articles about the way galamsey is destroying Ghana’s major water bodies, as well ...
Tag: Mining in Ghana
Australian High Commission, FON, Train Illegal Miners In Alternative Livelihood
The Australian High Commission in Ghana in partnership with Friends of the Nation, a socio-economic advocacy NGO in the Western ...
Stakeholders Schooled On Ghana’s Mining Vision
Investment inflows into the mining sector from 1983 to 2015 has increased the output of all minerals production in Ghana, ...
Mine Workers Livid Over Protracted Wage Discussions
The Ghana Mine Workers’ Union (GMWU) has given the strongest indication yet not to tolerate what it describes as undue ...
Revenue From Gold Exports To Reach Over $4.5 Billion By End of Year
Revenues from gold exports into the economy is expected to reach over $4.5 billion by end of year as the ...
Citi Breakfast Show Honoured At Ghana Mining Awards
The Citi Breakfast Show has been honoured at the second edition of the Ghana Mining Industry Awards. The awards, organized ...
Gov’t Owes Mining Firms GHC280m
Government owes mining companies over 280 million Ghana cedis in Value Added Tax as at the end of last year, ...
Residents Continue Search For Illegal Miners Shot Into Birim River
Small scale illegal miners at Akyem Asamama community in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region have stepped up their ...
Death Toll In Illegal Mine Clash Increase To 13 – Residents Claim
Residents of Asamama in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region are claiming to have retrieved eleven more bodies following ...
Two Feared Dead As Police Clash With Galamsey Operators At Asamama
play videoThe galamsey operators have vowed to resist attempts to deny them their livelihoods Two people alleged to be illegal ...
22 Illegal Miners Arrested For Mining In Birim River
The Police in the Eastern Region have arrested twenty two people at Asamanma, after clashes there on Thursday left two people ...
Police Kill 2, Injure 10 In Galamsey Crossfire
Police in the Eastern Region have killed two illegal small-scale miners and injured 10 more in Asamama following a gun ...
Two Die In Gun Battle Between Police, Illegal Miners
Two illegal miners are feared dead in a fatal gun battle between members of the anti galamsey security task force ...
Mining Trucks, Galamsey Destroying Ankobra Bridge
Residents of Prestea have expressed fears that the Ankobra Bridge serving them and the people of Bogoso could soon cave, ...
Ghana Bedeviled With Resource Curse Symptoms – PPP Aspiring MP
The Progressive People’s Party’s parliamentary candidate for Obuasi East, Mr Danyansah has questioned the growing disparity between the rich and ...
Prof. Adei To Go On ‘one-Man Aluta’ To Halt Galamsey
Outspoken Ghanaian economist, Professor Stephen Adei, has served notice he will embark on a “one man aluta” to compel the ...
Traditional Leaders, State Officials Are Sponsoring Galamsey Impunity – Baako
Senior journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jr., says operations of small scale miners popularly known as Galamsey are sponsored by ...
Chinese Galamseyers Take Over Wassa Forests
Hundreds of residents in Wassa Juabo in the Amenfi Central Municipality of the Western Region on Thursday, 20 October went ...
‘No Galamsey, No Vote’ Threats
The threats by illegal miners at Obuasi not to vote in December’s presidential and parliamentary polls if they are not ...
Could Ghana’s Illegal Gold Miners Evolve Into Allies Of Global Terrorist Organisations?
There is no question that illegal gold miners are a real threat to national security in our homeland Ghana. Ditto ...