Energy expert, Kwadwo Poku is in agreement with First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu urging soldiers to shoot and kill persons involved in illegal mining known as galamsey, when...
The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners is calling on government to immediately lift the ban on their activities to save its members from further financial crisis. According to...
A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Barbra Oteng Gyasi, says government is yet to decide on when to lift the ban on small-scale mining activities in the country. According to the...
Fifteen illegal miners operating within the Upper Denkyira East District of the Central Region have been arrested by a combined anti-galamsey taskforce. They have been handed over to the Police. A...
Small Scale Miners Association has expressed total disappointment in the government for extending ban on small scale mining. Members have therefore questioned the kind of policy government wants to...
The Minister of Lands, John Peter Amewu has announced he will enforce strict observance of Ghana’s law by all mining companies in the country. Mr. Amewu said even though the country welcomes...
Four alleged illegal miners are reported to have died under strange and mysterious circumstances at Akukuso, a village close to Kwabeng in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region. According to...
A combined anti-galamsey (illegal mining) task-force and monitoring team in the Upper-Denkyira East and West Districts in the Central Region has confiscated and destroyed 26 dredging boats and 58...
The Electricity Company of Ghana has been accused of contributing to illegal mining activities, popularly known as galamsey, in the country. A minister for Lands and Natural Resources Benito Owusu...
A research conducted by Good Governance Africa has revealed that small-scale mining activities were affecting school attendance and performance in basic schools in small scale mining areas in the...
Research conducted by Good Governance Africa, a not-for-profit organization, has revealed small-scale mining has affected school attendance and performance in basic schools in small scale mining...
Ghana’s fight against galamsey might fail if government does not tighten lose ends in the current its efforts to end illegal mining sustainably, Mr Kwamena Essilfie Adjaye, an economist has warned....
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has named some mining firms that will from henceforth have military protection. This comes weeks after the sector Minister, Peter John Amewu, criticized...
An audio visual device believed to have been secretly planted in the office of the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Peter Amewu has been discovered. Confirming the incident to Citi News, Mr....
The Ghana Growth and Development Platform (GGDP) says it supports governments effort to stop galamsey, but wants this done “simultaneously with measures to reform galamsey operations”. They also...
Hulking excavators claw at riverbanks on Indonesia's Sumatra island in the hunt for gold, transforming what was once a rural idyll into a scarred, pitted moonscape. It is one of a huge number of...
It was Tuesday 30th May 2017. Many Ghanaians had woken up to viral videos of the gruesome killing of a soldier. That soldier turned out to be Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, now Major. The news, in no...
Mr Robert P. Jackson, US Ambassador has expressed the believe that formalising the small scale mining (Galamsey) would bring sanity and protect the land. He said adopting scientific regulatory,...
The anti-illegal mining taskforce has seized and destroyed several mining equipment from some communities in the Ashanti region. The taskforce set up by the Ghana Association of Small Scale Miners...
Three Russians and a Ukrainian arrested at Tontokrom in the Ashanti Region for allegedly flouting the nation’s mining laws, have been charged with conspiracy to commit crime and undertaking...
