Mr Mustapha Hamid, Minister of Information, Wednesday said the fight against illegal mining would continue unabated until all illegalities in the mining sector was regularised and sanity restored in...
Residents of 52 communities in the Brong Ahafo and Western regions are to be empowered and supported with knowledge and financing to adopt and practice sustainable land use as part of measures being...
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...
Popular mining firm, Gold Fields Ghana, has disclosed plans to dismiss about 1,500 of its workers. The massive retrenchment will reportedly take effect this month, December, 2017. Gold Fields’ Vice...
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...
A hectare of degraded land caused by the activities of illegal small-scale miners would cost the government GH¢ 60,000 to restore it to the natural state, Mr John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands...
The government of Nana Akufo-Addo has been taking giant strides towards ensuring that illegal mining commonly known in Ghana as galamsey becomes a story of the past, together with all its associated...
The Minister of Lands, Forestry and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has revealed that government is in the process of procuring drones worth about three million dollars ($3m) to facilitate the...
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...
Civil society organisation Forest Watch Ghana (FWG) has backed a move to legally contest the mining right given Exton Cubic Group Limited to prospect for bauxite in the Tano Offin Forest Reserve....
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...
The Anlo Youth Council has filed a legal suit at the Supreme Court against the Attorney General, Minerals Commission, the Director Of Wild Life Division and the Water Resources Commission, praying...
A member of the communication team of the National Democratic Congress, Chief Biney, has called on President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo to make public the details of his anti-galamsey action plan....
Galamsey fight -In a bid to kick out the illicit act, the Military Command has deployed personnel to protect mining sites against illegal mining activities in the first phase of its long term...
The government has stepped up its fight against illegal mining activities as the Military prepares to deploy ten platoons to protect mining sites from the menace on Monday. The deployment today is...
A clinical pharmacologist and pharmacist, with extensive experience in drug safety, vaccine safety, harmonisation initiatives, Professor Alexander Nii Oto Dodoo is the new head of the Ghana Standards...
British miner Anglo American has set aside $101 million (87 million euros) to cover potential damages for former South African staff who contracted the fatal lung disease silicosis at work, it said...
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...
Two persons have been confirmed dead after an illegal mining pit caved in at Petrensa in the Asante Akyim Central Municipality of the Ashanti Region. Two others also suffered various degrees of...
