Mining in Ghana

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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...

Business

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...

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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...

Business

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...

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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,...

Business

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Politics

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...

Business

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...

Business

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...

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‘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...

Opinion

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...