Artisanal and small-scale mining formalization in Ghana: The …

Over a century, mining has been the cornerstone for the government's revenue and local development and has occurred in two main forms—large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining. Multinational corporations usually own the large-scale mines, which operate under a formal regulatory regime that demands responsible mining and the ...

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Resource politics and the impact of Chinese involvement in small-scale

Since 2009, with the involvement of Chinese miners in gold mining, which peaked in 2013, small-scale mining in Ghana has become highly mechanized, involving the use of excavators, wash plants and other equipment. ... The role of the state in prioritizing large-scale over small-scale mining also comes into focus here. Much of the legislation on ...

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(PDF) Managing the impacts of mining on Ghana's water

In Ghana, small-scale mining means 'the mining of gold by. a method not involving substantial expenditure by an indi vidual. or group of persons not exceeding nine in number or by a co-

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Chinese participation in Ghana's illegal small-scale gold mining

Over the past decade, Ghana's artisanal and small-scale mining 1 sector has attracted a wave of Chinese migrants (Antwi-Boateng and Akudugu, 2020; Boafo et al., 2019; Hilson et al., 2014).Between 2008 and 2016, over 50,000 Chinese gold seekers migrated to rural Ghana to engage in illegal ASM, aided at various levels, by local collaborators (Hausermann …

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Ghana needs to rethink its small-scale mining strategy

Ghana is among the top two gold producers in Africa. What has caught little attention, however, is the fact that more than 35 per cent of total gold output in Ghana comes from artisanal and small-scale miners. Artisanal and small-scale mining is estimated to support the livelihoods of some 4.5 million Ghanaians, about 12 per cent of the population.They account …

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Galamsey Fight in Ghana: An Analysis of Failure of Government

Growth Centre, 2015); Benjamin A Teschner, "Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: The Government and the Gala msey," Resources Policy 37, no. 3 (2012): 308 – 14. 6

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The hazardous nature of small scale underground mining in Ghana

In Ghana, SSM has been carried out for hundreds of years. It is currently and widely operated in the country by both licensed operators and unlicensed miners popularly known as galamsey operators. According to the Ministry of Lands, Forestry and Mines of Ghana, the number of small scale miners increased rapidly by 941.73% from 1984 to 2004 following the …

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Ghana is Africa's largest gold producer, but it has an illegal mining

For many years, Ghana's government focused on large-scale mining. Small-scale mining was neglected until 1989, when a new law was passed to legalise and regularise the sector by introducing a ...

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Golden Migrants: The Rise and Impact of Illegal Chinese …

The regularization of small-scale mining in Ghana in 1989 seems to have popularized the activity with the country experiencing a rapid and unprecedented upsurge in both legal and illegal small ...

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Small-scale mining in Ghana: The government and the galamsey

Scholars who study Ghana's small-scale mining sector habitually blame a lack of effective law enforcement capacity for the state's informal mining problems (Hilson and Potter, 2003, Hilson, 2002b, Kuma and Yendaw, 2010, World Bank and Washington, 2008).

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Artisanal and small-scale mining formalization challenges in …

Ghana was one of the first African countries to recognize ASM through the promulgation of a landmark Small-scale Gold Mining Law in 1989 (Government of Ghana, …

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Ghana is Africa's largest gold producer, but it has an illegal mining

Ghana's gold mines are found in most parts of the country, and the mining history can be traced back hundreds of years. However, a form of mining known as artisanal, illegal or...

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A Political Economy of Regulatory Policy: The Case of 'Illegal' Small

One main strategy to regulate the small-scale mining sector is to enforce institutions and legislative instruments. North (1990, 3) defines institutions as "the rules of the game in a society, or more formally, are the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction … they structure incentives in human exchange, whether political, social, or …

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SMALL SCALE MINING IN GHANA

This article provides a brief overview of small-scale mining regulation in Ghana and the dangers associated with it. Regulatory Regime Mining operations in Ghana are regulated by the …

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Implementating Small Scale Mining Laws in Ghana

A REVIEW OF SMALL SCALE MINING LAWS IN GHANA Ghana did not have laws regulating small scale mining until the promulgation of the Small-Scale Mining Act, 1989, also referred to as P.N.D.C.L 218. This law resulted in two groups of operators in …

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Small-Scale Mining Business in Ghana: Challenges and Prospects

In Ghana, there are about 300 registered small-scale mining groups and they constitute a major source of employment especially for small-scale gold and diamond miners, and contribute some foreign ...

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A Contextual Analysis of Implementation Challenges of Small-Scale

In Ghana, small-scale mining is defined as mining by any method not involving substantial expenditure by an individual or a group of persons not exceeding nine in number or by a corporate society made up of 10 or more persons (Provisional National Defence Council [PNDC] Law, 218, 1989).

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Socio-demographic factors affecting artisanal and small-scale mining

The Small-Scale Mining Law of 1989 (PNDCL 218) as amended by the Minerals and Mining Act of 2006 (Act 703) defined small-scale mining as an indigenous enterprise that requires certification of Ghanaians from the Minerals Commission to operate (Akabzaa and Darimani, 2001; Ofosu-Mensah, 2011). It indicated that small-scale mining is exclusively ...

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Lifting the lid on Ghana's illegal small-scale mining …

Artisanal and small scale mining accounts for 35% of Ghana's total gold production. For many years, small-scale mining suffered benign neglect from the state which focused on large-scale mining.

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Mining In Ghana

Except for small-scale mining rights that can be granted to an individual as provided for under Act 703, only corporate bodies incorporated in Ghana under the laws of the Republic of Ghana shall be given a mineral right in Ghana. A license for small-scale mining is, however, granted only to a citizen of the Republic of Ghana who has attained ...

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Small-scale Mining, the SDGs and Human Insecurity in Ghana

This chapter discusses small-scale mining in Ghana in the context of two intergovernmental development indicators—the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (SDGs) and the African Union 's Agenda 2063 (AU2063). ... Additionally, threats to the security of the state are usually deemed to arise from external or internal ...

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Small-Scale Mining Incubation Program

The strategic objective of the SSMIP is to transform wholly owned Ghanaian small-scale mining entities into mid-tier or large scale in the long run, and to formalize the activities of small-scale miners in Ghana.

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2021 PERFORMANCE REPORT OF THE MINING …

Published by the Ghana Chamber of Mines Ghana Chamber of Mines | #18 Gulf Street, South Legon | P.O. Box 991, Accra, Ghana communications@ghanachamberofmines In the Euro Area, a string of positive economic growth outturns accelerated the Area's recovery from its worst recession in nearly two decades.

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Ghana lifts ban on small-scale mining

On December 17, 2018, Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, minister of environment, science, technology and innovation, announced the end of a moratorium on small-scale mining after nearly two years. During this period, the government had developed a comprehensive framework to regularise and monitor the industry. Although the ban gave rise to a degree of controversy, the …

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Historical and Modern Artisanal Small-Scale Mining in Akyem Abuakwa, Ghana

Hilson and Hilson (2016) and Ofosu-Mensah (2017) likewise hold this opinion (2017). Ofosu-Mensah (2017) suggested that the failure of traditional methods of preventing irresponsible mining ...

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The state of gold mining in Ghana

Between 1989 and 1994, small scale gold mining earned the government $95.7 million (Akabzaa and Darimani, 2001) while the produce from small scale mining of diamonds earned the nation $98.4 ...

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Golden Migrants: The Rise and Impact of Illegal …

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 …

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Small scale mining in Ghana

Abstract. Since 1989 when small scale mining in Ghana was legalised, a lot of interest has been generated in the sector because of it's socio-economic benefits However, owing to lack of the necessary training and inadequate financial base on the part of small scale operators, most operations are poorly managed environmentally.

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(PDF) Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in …

Given that 200,000 people in Ghana are involved in the small-scale gold mining industry and that the numbers are expected to grow in Ghana and many other regions of the world, elucidating mercury ...

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SMALL SCALE MINING IN AFRICA: GHANA ON THE HOT SEAT

CASE STUDY; GHANA & SMALL-SCALE MINING. Ghana is well known for its mineral resources such as gold, salt, silver, limestone, and manganese. Approximately two-thirds of Ghana's small-scale miners are engaged in gold production.It is labor intensive and does not require the use of sophisticated machinery; rather it requires the use of simple hand tools such …

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