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Illegal small-scale mining, or galamsey, is the primary driver of water pollution in Ghana. This practice involves both Ghanaians and foreigners, including Chinese nationals and individuals from neighbouring West African …
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In the Western Region of Ghana, illegal mining has led to severe deforestation and significant water pollution, particularly affecting the Ankobra River. The rampant activities of illegal miners have resulted in the destruction of vast forest areas, which are crucial for maintaining local biodiversity and regulating the climate. ...
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Oct 11, 2018· The absence of government action in the face of such illegal mining in rivers, both prior to and post-2013 task force (Crawford and Botchwey, 2017), has led to the current crisis where the severe pollution of arterial rivers is now perceived by the Ghana Water Company as threatening future water supplies.
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With the inception of an Economic Recovery Programme (ERP) by the government in 1983, Ghana's minerals and mining sector has seen a major resurgence over the past one and a half decades.
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This research presents data and generalizable methods to quantify the spatial distribution of gold mining along the Pra River in southwestern Ghana, which has become a national menace. The data used are land cover maps for 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2021 with three land cover categories: Illegal Artisanal-small scale mining (ASM), Vegetation, and Other.
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This paper draws on the theoretical foundations of public administration and the different phases of governance as an analytical lens to scrutinize illegal small-scale mining in Ghana. It argues …
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The RSA of CSIR and GAEC therefore, called on the government of Ghana to take urgent, decisive, and sustained actions to address the galamsey menace. The Associations call for immediate suspension of all illegal small-scale mining activities in Ghana until there was support for Sustainable Mining Practices.
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Illegal Mining In Ghana By Administrator 2013; ... argue that illegal mining in Ghana is a more localised equitable approach to mineral wealth redistribution because it "offers far more benefits to local residents than does the Government of Ghana's disbursement of mining royalties or employment opportunities offered by the large-scale mines ...
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The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) reports that over 68% of cocoa farmlands in the Ashanti Region, 81% in the Eastern Region, and 74% in the Western Region have been severely affected by illegal mining.
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One of the key economic and political challenges that confronted the first Akufo-Addo Administration was destruction of the environment and the pollution of major rivers through illegal mining, commonly called 'galamsey'. ... The fight against illegal mining has long been fought in Ghana, but never won; and I wonder if it will ever be won ...
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The British establishment of the Gold Coast Colony and the introduction of commercial forms of gold mining, The British Colonial Administration: 1900–1930: ... making them illegal entrepreneurs (Webb et al., 2013). 3.4. Data collection procedures and sources. ... considering documented corruption within Ghana's illegal mining sector (Boafo et ...
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Uncontrolled small-scale and illegal mining activities popularly known as "galamsey" in Ghana are alarming each passing day. More people are engaging in this illegal mining, which is, mining without any permit or license …
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Illegal mining, commonly known as galamsey, has become a significant and pervasive issue in Ghana, posing substantial challenges to the country's economy, environment, and social fabric …
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Ghana's renewed fight against illegal mining between 2017 and 2021 saw the arrests of hundreds of Chinese illegal miners either as sponsors or workers at illegal mining sites. However, statistics of foreign nationals in Ghana's prisons, which the Ghana Prisons Service provided to The Fourth Estate, showed that as of July 2021, only two ...
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The government of Ghana responding to public outcry against the negative effects of "galamsey", placed a ban on illegal small-scale mining activities in March 2017.
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The findings suggest that illegal mining reflects local grievances and concerns over broader systemic distributional inequities in Ghana's mineral policy on two related fronts: …
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The small-scale mining sector in Ghana is an important contributor to job creation for people in rural communities due to lack of sufficient-paying alternative jobs (Hilson and Banchirigah, 2009; Amponsah-Tawiah and Dartey-Baah, 2011).About 85% of the estimated one million people who are directly or indirectly employed in the small-scale mining sector are …
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But when the Trades Union Congress threw its weight behind the campaign it raised the stakes, calling for an outright ban on all small-scale gold mining to halt activity blamed for polluting rivers — one Ghana Water Company facility said in August that 60% of the raw water it treated was affected by illegal mining, depressing cocoa production ...
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Within the past few decades, Ghana's mining sector specifically the small scale mining subsector has been marred by controversies mainly due to its threat to sustainable development.
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Locked up in abject poverty, individuals and groups engage in illegal mining as employment. Current available statistics indicate that illegal mining in Ghana is a poverty-driven activity, employing one million people directly and 4.5 million indirectly (McQuilken and Hilson 2016). Similarly, a study by Andrews (2015, p. 4) found that "the ...
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The Government of Ghana wishes to provide an update on its fight against illegal and irresponsible mining. Contrary to suggestions by the main opposition party that the fight is a charade and in a final state of glaring defeat the fight has achieved significant, the fight has achieved significant results and is now moving into a new phase with the community mining …
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Adwoa Pokuaa Boaduo, a mining engineer who wrote a doctoral thesis on the potential for artisanal and small-scale mining reform in Ghana, says a lack of compliance checks makes it relatively easy ...
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The unlicensed gold mining industry is known in Ghana as "galamsey." The industry has grown quickly over the past year. One reason for the growth was a 30 percent rise in international gold prices.
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Sustainability. While the engagement of Chinese migrants in small-scale mining in Ghana has gained traction in scholarship, the extant literature pays little attention to how the relationship between the so-called formal institutions (e.g., the Minerals Commission and Ministry of Land and Natural Resources) and informal institutions (e.g., the chieftaincy and customary land …
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Thousands took to the streets of Accra, demanding the government to put an end to illegal mining in Ghana, also known as Galamsey, and denouncing its harmful impact on the environment.
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Kumasi, Nov. 19, GNA – Mr Daniel Dotse, Co-founder of Lead for Ghana (LFG), has stressed the need for a collective approach to address the illegal mining issue, commonly known as "galamsey" in Ghana. ... Mr Donkor said as the nation waited for the president to address the menace of illegal mining and poor mining activities in the country ...
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According to the General Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Ghana has lost 2.5 million hectares of its forest reserve to illegal and uncontrolled mining. Again, the Ghana Cocoa Board also reported in 2022 that, the country lost 19,000 hectares of cocoa farmlands to illegal mining, throwing a lot of farmers out ...
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This paper draws on the theoretical foundations of public administration and the different phases of governance as an analytical lens to scrutinize illegal small-scale mining in Ghana. It argues that without adequately situating illegal mining within
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Ghana's small-scale mining sector has historically supplied livelihoods to rural people, but a rising number of illegal mining activities has shifted this activity into a more destructive force. Rivers and farmlands in places rich in gold resources, such as Ashanti, Western, and Eastern regions, have suffered as a consequence, with mining ...
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Discourses on "illegal" or informal small‐scale mining (galamsey) have presented it largely as a menace. Using Ghana as the focus of our study, we present a counter‐narrative to the ...
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