Energy expert, Kwadwo Poku is in agreement with First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu urging soldiers to shoot and kill persons involved in illegal mining known as galamsey, when...
Reactions are sharply divided between the Majority and Minority on the president’s State of the Nation address. Key amongst the issues is operation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)....
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...
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...
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 interesting thing is that most of these recommended galamsey alternative jobs are quite easier, safer and more lucrative than illegal mining. It is no longer news that the newly launched...
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...
The name Prestea sounds familiar right? Yea, it’s a long known town in Ghana for obvious reasons. It’s a land rich in gold. In this town and its environs are large scale mining companies such as ...
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has said government has not given up on the fight against illegal mining also known as galamsey. A former Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources,...
The Ghana Growth and Development Platform (GGDP) says it supports governments effort to stop galamsey, but wants this done “simultaneously with measures to reform galamsey operations”. They also...
It was Tuesday 30th May 2017. Many Ghanaians had woken up to viral videos of the gruesome killing of a soldier. That soldier turned out to be Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, now Major. The news, in no...
Mr Robert P. Jackson, US Ambassador has expressed the believe that formalising the small scale mining (Galamsey) would bring sanity and protect the land. He said adopting scientific regulatory,...
The four Russians and Ukranians arrested in the Ashanti Region for engaging in small scale mining without appropriate licences, have each been granted GHC200,000 by the Circuit Court in Accra. In...
Gold Ghana Limited, a small-scale mining firm in the Western Region, has sued the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources at the Tarkwa High Court for terminating a Mineral Prospecting License...
Gold Ghana Limited, a small scale mining firm in the Western Region, has sued the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources at the Tarkwa High Court for terminating a Mineral Prospecting License...
Three Russians and a Ukrainian arrested at Tontokrom in the Ashanti Region for allegedly flouting the nation’s mining laws, have been charged with conspiracy to commit crime and undertaking...
The Circuit Court in Accra will on June 14 decided whether to grant bail to the four Russians arrested in the Ashanti Region for engaging in small-scale mining without appropriate licences. Farid...
The Circuit Court in Accra will on June 14 decided whether to grant bail to the four Russians arrested in the Ashanti Region for engaging in small scale mining without appropriate licences. Farid...
Three Chinese nationals have been arrested near Kyebi in the Eastern Region for engaging in illegal mining. A surface mining equipment was found at the scene of a devastated parcel of land hedged by...
