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 as our farmlands. The farms being destroyed do not only consist of food– farms...
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 Region, have provided some 65 illegal miners livelihood empowerment and...
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, bringing in about 16 billion US dollars. Gold production increased by 93 per...
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 delays in salary negotiations for its members from next year. The mine workers...
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 revenues have exceeded the projection by about 73 percent in spite of the challenges with gold...
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 by the Ghana Chamber of Mines saw the award winning Citi Breakfast Show beat...
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, a report by the Ghana Chamber of Mines has revealed. Though the Value Added Tax Act of...
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 search for about five of their members believed to have been gunned down into...
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 a gun battle between anti-galamsey security taskforce and illegal miners,...
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 miners are feared dead in an anti galamsey operation in Asamama near...
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 dead. Some illegal miners reportedly attacked the Police who were on...
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 battle between them and the galamseyers on Thursday. More than 20 of the...
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 and some illegal miners at Asamama in the Eastern Region, Thursday. At least four...
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, in considering the deteriorating condition and cracks it has developed. This...
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 the poor amidst abundant oil and gold resources....
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 next government to, as a matter of urgency, halt the growing phenomenon...
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 some influential personalities in the country. He says these...
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 on a demonstration against Chinese miners who have taken over large hectares...
‘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 allowed to resume their mining activities in the municipality do not hold up...
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 illegal loggers and illegal sand-winners. That is why the wealthy criminal syndicates...