Tag Archives: MINING

President Nana Akufo-Addo has opened the two-day national consultative dialogue on small-scale Mining. The Dialogue on Small Scale Mining which started on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, is being held at the Accra International Conference Centre. It will end on Thursday, 15th April, 2021. It seeks to solicit views, proposals and …

  One person was killed when two unidentified men raided a mining site at Attabrakoso, a community near Jacobu in the Ashanti Region. 30-year-old Richard Arthur, an excavator operator with Tolla Mining Company died when he sustained multiple gunshot wounds during the Tuesday dawn attack. The robbers also shot a …

Okyenhene Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin says the Akyem Abuakwa traditional council will no longer tolerate the community mining policy introduced by the Akufo-Addo government. According to the Okyenhene, the policy is illegal and causes destruction to lands and water bodies in the Akyem area. President Akufo-Addo on Wednesday, 25th July …

The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners is backing Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin who has threatened to resist the government’s community mining program. According to the Okyenhene, the program which was introduced to regulate illegal small scale mining nationwide has rather degraded lands and caused pollution to water …

After a lost state battle over the threat, the return of illegal mining looks more damaging than ever. Illegal miners working in parts of the Eastern region are, without recourse to the regulatory system, deleteriously extracting gold with negligence. As the ambitious illegal miners infiltrated the rivers mining the banks and bed deposits, two …

The Relative of the late Sir John who was complicit in a Joy News Report on Illegal mining in the Ashanti Region, Charles Owusu has denied allegations of been involved in any form of illegal mining. According to him, as a worker of the forestry Commission he discharged his duties …

President Akufo-Addo has dissolved the Inter-ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Starr News has learnt. Sources with knowledge of the development say the President will hold a national dialogue with all stakeholders in illegal mining. It comes after the President called for a ‘conversation’ on galamsey in his last state …

A ferocious international bidding war for one of the most well-endowed gold mining concessions discovered in recent history has taken a dramatic new turn with what has been a two-horde tussle having become a three horse race. The late entry of a wholly Ghanaian owned company which is looking to …

Eight illegal miners have died after an illegal small scale mining pit collapsed on Wednesday at Nkotumso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region. The pit popularly known as Face (4) which is at the outskirts of Ayanfuri claimed the lives of the men believed to be …

Several barrels of diesel, boats, Chamfan generator and other mining equipment worth thousands of Ghana Cedis have been seized from illegal miners popularly known as Galamsey on the River Offin enclave at Dunkwa-Dominase in the Upper Denkyira East District of the Central Region. The quipment were seized and burnt by …