Tag Archives: MINING

The Assembly Member for Kwabeng Electoral Area, and the President of the Concerned Citizens of the Atewa Landscape, Oteng Adjei, has described as palpable falsehood notice put up by Xtra Gold Mining Limited in a press statement dated May 17, 2021. It will be recall that Xtra Gold Mining Limited …

 galamsey-mining A rescue team is racing against time to save the lives of at least eight miners trapped in a pit at Gbane in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region. The team consists of the police, Regional Security Coordinator, National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), and Association of Small-Scale …

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 …