Mining in Africa

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Officers Touch Base For 12-Month Anti-Galamsey Operation

Officers of the joint police-military force tasked to fight illegal small scale mining  – popularly known as...

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Name and Shame Politicians In Galamsey

Former head of the anti-galamsey taskforce, Brigadier General Daniel K. Mishio, wants the government to name and shame...

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See the Gallant Soldiers Deployed To Protect Mines Against Illegal Mining

Galamsey fight -In a bid to kick out the illicit act, the Military Command has deployed personnel to protect mining...

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Tension In Wassa Asankragua As Cops Steal From Miners Amid Gunshots

Information reaching Today indicates that some police officers from the Asankragua District Police Command in the Wassa...

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All Is Not Well With EC–Its Touted Credentials Are Badly Exposed

It started like a simmering fire.  We could not put it out.  Now the fire has engulfed our touted independent and...

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400 Police, Soldiers Deploy To Galamsey Areas

A total of 400 police cum military personnel would  be deployed to mining areas next week to counter the activities of...

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Are Galamseyers Not Learning Any Lesson(s)?

IT might now dawn on us as a people that the war we have waged on galamsey is far from over.   At least we now have...

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Anti-Galamsey Team Destroys Illegal Mining Equipment

A combined anti-galamsey (illegal mining) task-force and monitoring team in the Upper-Denkyira East and West Districts...

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Galamsey: Two Confirmed Dead

Two persons have been confirmed dead after an illegal mining pit caved in at Petrensa in the Asante Akyim Central...

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10 Chinese Galamseyers Busted

A mining taskforce has arrested 10 illegal Chinese miners within the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region....

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Tragedy! Another Galamsey Pit Swallows 4 In A/R

As of press time yesterday four men who were part of a gang of six illegal miners at Patrensa, a town near Konongo in...

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Stop Interfering In Galamsey Fight; Minerals Commission Warns Politicians

MINERALS Commission of Ghana has warned politicians across the political divide to stop the habit of interfering in the...

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Everything You Need To Know About the Tragic Incident

Patriensa collapse, as well as other unrecorded cases, are a manifestation of the effects land degradation and the...

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Minister Fingers ECG For ‘promoting Galamsey’

The Electricity Company of Ghana has been accused of contributing to illegal mining activities, popularly known as...

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10 Chinese Illegal Miners Arrested In Tarkwa

Ten Chinese illegal Miners have been arrested by police in Tarkwa in the Western Region. They were arrested upon a tip...

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Implementation of Anti-Galamsey Plan To Cost $150 Million

Government’s proposed solution to ending the illegal mining menace also known as galamsey in the country will cost...

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Ghana To Spend $150m On Alternative Livelihood Prog For Illegal Miners

An estimated 150 million dollars is expected to be used for the implementation of the government’s multilateral...

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Galamsey Killing Education In Ghana

A research conducted by Good Governance Africa has revealed that small-scale mining activities were affecting school...

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We’ll Not Relent In Galamsey Fight

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated his government’s commitment to the fight against illegal mining activities...