Tag: mining

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

At least 200 environmental campaigners and protectors -- 40 percent from indigenous tribes -- were murdered around the world in ...

Cambodia has outlawed sand exports from a coastal region where it has been primarily funnelled in huge quantities to Singapore, ...

The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has said it will deploy a combined team of military and police personnel to ...

Divisional Chief of Prestea Traditional Area in Prestea Huni Valley District of the Western Region, Nana Ntaboah Prah IV, has ...

The Birim River and some of its tributaries in the Eastern Region are regenerating their natural ecology months after the ...

Australia has bought back most of a contentious mining licence issued for a huge Chinese-run coal mine near prime agricultural ...

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

Barely a week after the country was hit by one of its worst mining disasters at Prestea-Nsuta in the Western ...

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

A mass burial service was on Friday, July 7, 2017, held for the twenty-two (22) illegal miners who were trapped ...

Twenty-two miners have now been declared dead after an illegal goldmine collapsed in western Ghana, police said, increasing the toll ...

US job creation returned with a roar in June, offering a dose of welcome news to the White House and ...

The Prestea mine collapse victims were given a mass burial as rescue team could not find the 22 trapped persons… ...

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has indicated that illegal mining can be totally eradicated only if the approach is focused ...

The 22 illegal miners who were trapped in a Galamsey pit at Prestea in the Western Region have been given a ...

Rescuers on Thursday called off a search for miners who were trapped underground after an illegal goldmine collapsed in western ...

IT appears the aggressiveness with which we waged the war on illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, in our local parlance, is ...

Five bodies were spotted in an illegal goldmine that collapsed in Ghana, a government official said Wednesday, as the search ...

The body of one of the 14 persons trapped in a collapsed mining pit at Prestea Nsuta in the Western ...