Namdini Gold Project, Northern Ghana, West …
Namdini gold project is a high-grade gold mine being developed in Ghana, West Africa, by Cardinal Resources. Mining lease for the project was secured at the end of 2017 through Cardinal Resources' …
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Hundreds march against Ghana's damaging informal gold mining …
ACCRA, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people marched through Ghana's capital Accra on Friday in a peaceful protest against unlicensed gold mining, calling on authorities to act against the ...
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(PDF) Polluting our rivers in search of gold: how sustainable …
We used participant observation, in-depth interviews with stakeholders, a review of policy and legal documents, reports from media websites, and site visits to various artisanal gold mining sites.
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Spatial distribution patterns of illegal artisanal small scale gold
1. Introduction. Mantey et al., defines "galamsey" as the practice of illicitly mining and/or extracting gold found either at or below soil and water surface in Ghana. It is an illegal or unregulated form of artisanal small scale gold mining (ASM) and could either be in a stand-alone mining mode, a stand-alone processing or gold extraction …
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The illegal gold mines killing rivers and livelihoods in Ghana …
Sixty percent of Ghana's water bodies are now polluted, largely due to illegal mining activities. Ghana is the leading producer of gold in Africa and about 35% of it is extracted by small-scale ...
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Map of Ghana showing the Location of the Major Gold …
Ghana is rich in mineral resources, including gold, diamonds, bauxite, manganese, and-more recently-oil and gas. Dating back to the 4 th century (Gbireh et al. 2009), gold mining has a long and ...
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Regional map of Ghana. Key mining areas (Obuasi, Tarkwa) …
Under the Small-Scale Gold Mining Act of 1989, registered and licensed artisanal gold mining operations were legalized and allocated for Ghanaian citizens (Rajaee et al., 2015). Formal ASGM ...
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Mining Laws and Regulations Ghana 2025
The key legislation regulating mining in Ghana is as follows: the 1992 Constitution of Ghana; the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703) as amended by the Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act, …
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Northern Ashanti Mines – Nguvu Mining Limited
Northern Ashanti Mines (Konongo Gold Mine) is located around 150 km from Accra, Ghana and is currently under re-development. The project comprises two leases totalling 195 km², over 12km of mineralized strike …
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Operating Mines
MAJOR OPERATING MINES IN GHANA List of major mining companies operating in Ghana and their details in case of references NO. Operating Mines Mineral Type Mine Location Website Address 1 AngloGold Ashanti (Ghana) Ltd Gold Obuasi 2 AngloGold Ashanti (Iduapriem)Ltd Gold Iduapriem …
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Ghana: Five Largest Mines in 2021
Tarkwa Mine in Western, was the largest mine in Ghana, producing approximately 13.19 million metric tons per annum (mmtpa) of Run-of-Mine (ROM) and primarily produced …
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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 small-scale ...
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Geospatial characterisation and distribution of Illegal gold mining
Mining operations have significantly contributed to the contamination of readily available drinking water sources, particularly in southwestern Ghana Illicit small-scale mining activities (locally ...
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Multivariate studies and heavy metal pollution in soil from gold mining …
Artisanal or small-scale gold mining is essential in many developing countries such as Ghana. Because it provides jobs for the indigenous people, particularly in rural communities where economic activities are critically limited and also make significant contributions to foreign exchange earnings [1].Ghana's artisanal or small-scale mining …
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Ghana's wildcat gold mining booms, poisoning people and …
The unlicensed gold mining industry, known in Ghana as "galamsey", has grown at a breakneck pace this year as global gold prices have risen by almost 30%, enticing new entrants.
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How To Start A Profitable Gold Business In …
Best Areas (Places) To Start A Gold Business In Ghana. In Ghana, the best areas to start your gold business are the mining communities. The reason is that a gold dealer will have a constant supply of gold from …
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Gold mining's environmental footprints, drivers, and future …
From 2008 to early 2017, the third phase of gold mining in Ghana witnessed a significant upsurge in small-scale mining activities due to the escalating gold prices (Hausermann et al., 2018; Barenblitt et al., 2021). This era marked a significant environmental impact as advanced technology such as excavators and wash plants …
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Should Surface Gold Mining Be Banned in Ghana Until Its …
Ghana has witnessed widespread land degradation due to surface gold mining. According to the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 60% of Ghana's water bodies are polluted, with mining activities contributing significantly (2020). The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources reports that over 30% of Ghana's land area …
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248 Mining jobs in Ghana (1 new)
Today's top 248 Mining jobs in Ghana. Leverage your professional network, and get hired. New Mining jobs added daily.
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Arsenic in Gold Mining Wastes: An Environmental and …
In Ghana, gold mining is noted for environmental and social impacts in host communities (Mensah et al. 2015, 2021).These include, among others, the indiscriminate release of As from gold mining sites, which in turn affects accurate performance of ecological functions as reported by Armah et al. ().Tailings dam is one of the waste …
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Frontiers | Polluting our rivers in search of gold: how …
1 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research- Soil Research Institute, KwadasoKumasi, Ghana; 2 Technical Support Unit, Mercy Corps, Washington, DC, United States; 3 Antioch University, Keene, NH, United States; Introduction: Although artisanal gold mining has contributed to livelihoods in many rural communities across the world, …
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Ghana's wildcat gold mining report- October 2024
Small-scale mines produced 1.2 million ounces of gold in the first seven months of this year, more than in the whole of 2023, according to data from Ghana's mining sector regulator. About 40% of ...
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(PDF) POLLUTING OUR RIVERS IN SEARCH OF GOLD: HOW …
The fact that the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector in Ghana is driven largely by poverty means that the sector is a major source of livelihood for people in mining communities across ...
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Assessing releases of mercury from small-scale gold mining sites in Ghana
Ghana, famous for the abundance of its gold, is home to an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 small-scale gold miners. According to the Ghanaian Minerals Commission, the chief government body in the country responsible for policymaking in the mining sector, these operators extracted 39,642,782 oz of gold from 1980 to 2008 and …
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New FTS Research Explores Child Slavery in Ghana Gold Mining
as young as 10 are prostituted in mining camps and are pushed into relationships with older men. These deeply moving stories of children losing their childhoods and freedom to violence, hard labor, prostitution, and sexual abuse are some of the key findings of recent FTS research on child slavery in Ghana's gold mining regions.
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Detecting Gold Mining in Ghana
This unregulated small-scale and artisanal gold mining is known locally as galamsey, a slang word derived from the Ghanaian words "gather" and "sell.". About one million Ghanaians engage in the practice, …
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Cadmium, Cu, Hg, Sb, Se and Ti contamination in abandoned …
The areas of the active and abandoned mine fields were 2103.63 m 2 and 10,425 m 2, respectively.The extent of current environmental degradation in the area caused by gold mining activities, the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the people are recently published in Mensah and Tuokuu (2023).We produced thematic …
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Review of Environmental and Health Impacts of Mining in Ghana
The search identified eleven mining sites in Ghana that were used in the review; ten from southern Ghana and one from the three northern regions in the Talensi District in the Upper East region. ... A study of 252 miners at a large-scale gold mining company in Ghana found that 59 (23%) had noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL).51 …
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Ghana's wildcat gold mining booms, poisoning people and …
Small-scale mines produced 1.2 million ounces of gold in the first seven months of this year, more than in the whole of 2023, according to data from Ghana's mining sector regulator. About 40% of ...
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Assessing releases of mercury from small-scale gold mining sites in Ghana
The growth in the development of gold-mining corresponds to increased exploration and discovery of new mining sites, generally in developing countries (Clifford 2017). Smallscale gold miners use ...
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