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+ Waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited says it has the expertise to apply land reclamation techniques to remediate degraded sites due to illegal mining activities. The company said over the past 15 years, it had made huge investments in infrastructure, technology and equipment towards managing waste, and could therefore reclaim mined-out sites if given the opportunity. The Managing Director of Zoil Services Limited, a subsidiary of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Dr Kenneth Asamoah-Boateng...

Graphic Online BY: Emmanuel Bonney 30.5k Shares 705 The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor, has lauded the bipartisan nature of discussions at the National Dialogue on Small Scale Mining at the Accra International Conference Centre. He, therefore, commended the leaders of political parties for their participation and support for the two-day event. "This is a true Ghanaian adventure. This clearly shows that with a bipartisan attitude,we can achieve a lot for the c...

  Head of Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu has called on Ghanaians to support the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor in his quest to end illegal mining in the country. The Minister, during a National Consultative Dialogue on Small Scale Mining, pledged to fight the menace. In a 15-point communique read by him on Thursday, April 15, Abu Jinapor stressed that sanctions and penalties imposed by the Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act, 2019...

President Akufo-Addo Calls For National Consensus To Promote Responsible Mining

  The European Union is threatening to stop the purchase of cocoa from Ghana because of deforestation and child labour. The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board in charge of Agronomy and Quality Control, Dr Emmanuel A. Dwomoh, said the EU had attributed the problem to cocoa farming, which unfortunately was not the case but illegal mining or galamsey. The EU, which purchases about 80 percent of cocoa from Ghana, had indicated places which hitherto were covered with forest in ...

I am a PhD Candidate at the School of Environmental Studies, Queens. I hold both BA and Mphil in the field of Development Studies. My professional career revolves around development planning and international development. My current research interests revolve around resource extraction and environmental justice. My PhD research is exploring the drivers of informality, and a high proliferation of foreign miners in Ghanas Artisanal and Small-scale Mining space, and the policy implications. Experi...

+ Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor wants stiffer punishment for politicians, chiefs and kingpins behind illegal mining in the country. Mr. Jinapor says dealing with such persons will go a long way to help the fight against illegal mining. Speaking at the opening of a national dialogue on illegal mining in Ghana, Samuel Abu Jinapor said a lot more stringent actions must be taken to deal with the menace. “How do we name, shame and punish politicians, chiefs, religious ...

  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Wednesday opened a two-day bi-partisan Consultative Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining, in Accra, and called on participants to discuss illegal small-scale mining devoid of partisan politics, narrow and parochial interests. The President said it would require stakeholders in the small-scale mining industry to engage in honest and candid conversations to stem the tide of the menace of illegal small-scale mining, otherwise known as “galamsey”. He said al...

Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor wants stiffer punishment for politicians, chiefs and kingpins behind illegal mining in Ghana. Mr. Jinapor says dealing with such persons will go a long way to help the fight against illegal mining. Speaking at the opening of a national dialogue on illegal mining in Ghana, Samuel Abu Jinapor said a lot more stringent actions must be taken to deal with the menace. “How do we name, shame and punish politicians, chiefs, religious leaders...

File photo – Mining Women in Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) have appealed to the Government to publicly demarcate and announce all mining sites at the national, regional and district levels. They also appealed to government to encourage women in small scale mining by allocating portions of available mining lands to them after announcing them. Mrs. Victoria Adobea Guerrieri, National Women’s Coordinator for the Ghana Association of Small Scale Miners, said this in Accra at a dialogue...