large-scale mining
Prestea; A Town of Gold With Ugly Roads
The name Prestea sounds familiar right? Yea, it’s a long known town in Ghana for obvious reasons. It’s a land rich...
200 Green Activists Killed In 2016, Record Toll
At least 200 environmental campaigners and protectors -- 40 percent from indigenous tribes -- were murdered around the...
Australia Scales Back Controversial China-Run Mine Site
Australia has bought back most of a contentious mining licence issued for a huge Chinese-run coal mine near prime...
Kweku Baako Should Come For Free Tutorials On Mining Reportage
Seasoned Journalist Kweku Baako Jnr. has been slammed by former Youth and Sports Minister in the erstwhile Mahama...
‘Galamsey Soldiers’ Were Deployed Upon Request – Minister
Military personnel found protecting an illegal mining site in the Ashanti Region, were deployed there in 2014, upon the...
‘Galamsey Soldiers’ Were Deployed Upon Request
The Army personnel found protecting an illegal mining site in the Ashanti Region were deployed there in 2014 upon a...
‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’- the ‘galamsey’ Tale
Though there exist laws on small scale mining, according to the 2008 Ghana Chamber of Mines report, illegal mining...
Residents Want Popular Chinese Mine Shut Down
Concerned Citizens of Talensi is calling on the Minerals Commission and Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to...
Talensi Group Wants Chinese Mining Company Expelled
A group calling itself Concerned Citizens of Talensi (CCT), in the Upper East Region, are calling for the expulsion of...
Talensi Residents Angry After Chinese Miners ‘destroy’ Drinking Water
A public outcry over an alleged environmental devastation, expressed in a tone more emotional than any heard in recent...
Galamseyers Vacate Sites; Chinese Beg
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government appears to be winning the fight against illegal mining, popularly known as...
Revoke All Prospecting Mining Licences — Manso Nkwanta MP
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Manso Nkwanta, Mr Joseph Albert Quarm, wants the Ministry of Lands and Natural...
I Was Almost Arrested For Stopping Illegal Chinese Miners
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Manso Nkwanta, Joseph Albert Quarm has revealed that he was almost arrested for...
Some Mining Companies Give Part of Concessions To Illegal Miners
The Member of Parliament for Manso Nkwanta, Joseph Albert Quarm, claims some large-scale mining companies are partly to...
I Have Never Been Involved In Galamsey – Wontumi
Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Bosiako says he has never in his life...
How Laxity and Greed Worsened Galamsey
All rivers were not polluted in a day. All of us including you, yes you my reader saw the rivers polluted bit by bit,...
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...
Mining Code To Be Reclassified To Deal With ‘galamsey’ – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has said that the National Democratric Congress (NDC), will reclassify the Ghana’s...
Mining Code To Be Reclassified To Deal With ‘galamsey’
President John Dramani Mahama has said that the National Democratric Congress (NDC), will reclassify the Ghana’s...