Spatial distribution patterns of illegal artisanal small scale
2018.2.1 Earth sciences 1. Introduction Mantey et al., [1] defines “galamsey” as the practice of illicitly mining and/or extracting gold found either at or below soil and water surface in Ghana.
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Why is Ghana losing the war against illegal gold mining (Galamsey
2023.5.17 This statement was made at the presidency of the Republic of Ghana on the back of several unsuccessful attempts by successive governments to fight Galamsey
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The footprints of galamsey in Ghana: The Western
2014.10.1 Project documenting illegal gold mining or 'galamsey' operations in the Western Region of Ghana and their environmental impacts. Researchers also outline a costed strategy for reclaiming and
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Mapping the expansion of galamsey gold mines in the cocoa
2017.6.1 Galamsey is a complex socio-economical activity which struggles to coexist with other livelihoods. Mining has positive impacts on the local populations through the
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Spatial distribution patterns of illegal artisanal small scale
2018.3.1 A large number of workforce from Prestea and its environs are being recruited for the underground mining, instead of being left to pursue galamsey. Among
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Gold, Guns, and China: Ghana's fight to end
2017.5.30 In the span of only a few years, Ghana has attracted an estimated 50,000 “gold seekers” from China, almost exclusively from Shanglin County in Guangxi province. This so-called “Shanglin gang”
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The Illegal Artisanal and Small-scale mining (Galamsey) ‘Menace
2020.10.1 The Illegal Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (Galamsey) ‘Menace’ in Ghana: Is a Military-Style Approach the Answer? The artisanal and small-scale mining
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Mapping the expansion of galamsey gold mines in the
2023.3.28 extent of galamsey is needed to understand and limit the negative impacts of mining. To address this, we use multi-date UK-DMC2 satellite images to map the
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(PDF) Mapping the expansion of galamsey gold
2017.6.1 PDF Artisanal gold mining (galamsey) and cocoa farming are essential sources of income for local populations in Ghana. Unfortunately the former poses... Find, read and cite all the research...
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Geospatial characterisation and distribution of Illegal gold mining ...
2022.4.16 For instance, the dig and check type of mining dominates across communities in Wa West District while Wa East District hosts a multitude of the galamsey
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The Rise of the Fourth Estate: The Media, Environmental Policy, and the ...
Amid increasing climate change and environmental degradation, illegal mining (galamsey) has received widespread public concern in Ghana, with greater attention in recent times due to increased media coverage. This paper explores the role of the media in the ongoing crackdown on galamsey activities through a Media Agenda-setting theoretical lens.
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My gold, my money, my life – the story of a galamsey miner
2011.10.31 Seyram Atsu is a 21-year-old Senior High School dropout illegal mine operator. He has come to Prestea – a gold mining town in the Western Region to illegally mine gold. Atsu hails from far away Kpetoe in the Volta Region of Ghana. He says, he has to do this job in order to raise money to take care of his little brother back at home and to ...
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Sustainability Implications of Galamsey on Rural Poverty
2021.12.8 Informal artisanal and small-scale mining often referred to as galamsey, has increasingly influenced Ghana's political, economic, and environmental trajectory. According to one estimate, Galamsey in Ghana represents approximately 60% of workers in the mining sector and about 30% of production (Liege 2021). Galamsey
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Is illegal mining socio-politically entrenched? An opinion
2022.8.8 Gold mining has been the backbone of Ghana's development since pre-colonial times. It has been essential in revenue mobilisation and the provision of employment to many people. However, in recent times the sector has received severe public backlash due to its inability to effect appropriate socioeconomic change; and the consequential
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Spatial distribution patterns of illegal artisanal small scale
2018.2.1 1. Introduction. Mantey et al., [1] 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 mode or in a
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Frontiers Polluting our rivers in search of gold: how
2023.5.10 Introduction: Although artisanal gold mining has contributed to livelihoods in many rural communities across the world, it has destroyed and polluted several water bodies.Methods: Using Prestea in the southwestern region of Ghana, this paper demonstrates how artisanal gold mining has culminated in the pollution of freshwater
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Cocoa production, farmlands, and the galamsey: Examining
2023.7.1 1. Introduction. Over the past decades, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities – a low-tech, labour-intensive form of extraction and processing of mineral ores such as gold - have become an important source of employment for many inhabitants in most mining communities across the globe (Arthur-Holmes and Abrefa Busia, 2022;
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Galamsey Fight in Ghana: An Analysis of Failure of
2023.4.6 This paper, therefore, analyses the failure of government/military interventions aimed at fighting illegal gold mining in Ghana since 1989. To achieve the objective of the study, the qualitative ...
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The Large Footprint of Small-Scale Mining in Ghana - NASA
2021.6.14 Unregulated artisanal mining is locally known as galamsey, derived from the Ghanaian words “gather” and “sell.” 2007 - 2017JPEG “Artisanal mining has a quicker turnaround time on the landscape, with operations excavating a shallower area and then moving on to another section of the river. Some of the artisanal mines stretch for great ...
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Mechanization of illegal gold mining threatens Ghana’s forests
2023.2.8 “Galamsey,” derived from “gather them and sell,” is a local Ghanaian phrase that means illegal small-scale gold mining. Around him, the once lush cocoa trees have given way to craters ...
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Integrated Assessment of Artisanal and Small
2015.7.15 This article is one of three synthesis reports resulting from an integrated assessment (IA) of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in Ghana. Given the complexities that involve multiple drivers
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The Rise of the Fourth Estate: The Media, Environmental
2020.8.7 Artisanal gold mining (galamsey) and cocoa farming are essential sources of income for local populations in Ghana. Unfortunately the former poses serious threats to the environment and human ...
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Stakeholders engage on ‘galamsey’ fight through
2022.5.6 The government has begun a stakeholder engagement to find a long-term and sustainable solution to illegal mining also known as ‘galamsey’ through the Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small Scale
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Geospatial characterisation and distribution of Illegal gold mining ...
2022.4.16 The results showed that Wa West District is dominated by the dig and check galamsey while Wa East District hosts the large majority of the underground pits. In addition, Nadowli-Kaleo District is dominated by the underground pit galamsey. Wa East District was the hotspot of illegal mining activities (1644 sightings) in the region.
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Socio-demographic factors affecting artisanal and small
1 天前 Galamsey Ghana Illegal mining Local communities Socio-demographic characteristics ABSTRACT In spite of the persistent efforts by the responsible state institutions to eradicate galamsey operations ...
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Government's ban on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining,
2021.6.1 The results revealed that crop production lands have been converted into artisanal small-scale mining (galamsey) sites, a development which has implications on food security, life on land and effective utilizations of land and water resources. The results also showed that membership in Farmer-Based Organizations (FBOs), access to credit, and ...
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Digging for Gold or Justice? Misrecognition and ... - Springer
2018.8.20 Artisanal small-scale mining remains a concern to many mineral-rich countries in the developing world. In Ghana, a significant number of those engaged in the sector are operating illegally. The ubiquity of the illegal mining sector has posed a policy challenge to the government, and high-handed measures to curb the problem have
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Is illegal mining socio-politically entrenched? An opinion
2022.8.8 Introduction. Gold mining follows two divisional lines in Ghana; the large-scale multi-national and the small-scale mining sectors (Wireko-Gyebi et al., 2020).Typically, the small scale mining aspect of gold extraction can be further divided into two classes (legal and illegal) depending on its legal approval and operational protocols (Boateng et al., 2014).
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Framing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the
2022.11.10 Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) plays a significant socio-economic role in the alleviation of poverty. In Ghana, the increase in and persistence of illegal ASM (galamsey) can be explained by unemployment, cumbersome and costly registration, lack of land, corruption and Chinese engagement.Traditionally, Ghanaian
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To Cover the Many Sins of Galamsey Mining - Academia
This article is quite 39 helpful and complete, if not very scientific in its focus. fTo Cover the Many Sins of Galamsey Miningb127 The meaning of the metaphor “cover” in biblical texts such as Psalm 32, James 5:20 and 1 Peter 4:8 is not immediately clear (καλύπτω = to cover, while ἀποκαλύπτω is to reveal).
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Spatial distribution patterns of illegal artisanal
2018.1.31 The three main galamsey hotspot districts (out of the 11) are the Tarkwa Nsuaem (294 sightings and 3648 individual galamsey sites), Amenfi East (223 sightings and 1397 individual galamsey sites ...
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Politics on display: The realities of artisanal mining formalisation
2021.12.1 In 2017, the government of Ghana enacted a series of enabling and deterring formalisation approaches targeting the protection of surface water resources from informal artisanal gold mining whilst simultaneously seeking long term solutions to the ‘illegal mining menace’. The paper sought to unpack how politics mediates the implementation of ...
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Gold Over Forest: A Surge in Illegal Mining in Ghana
2021.12.20 Since 2007, illegal mining operations locally known as “galamsey” have ravaged Ghana’s forests and bodies of water. A report by the World Resource Institute shows that Ghana is losing its forests at a 60 percent rate, faster than any country in the world. Today, illegal mining is one of the largest causes of forest destruction in Ghana.
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Effect of small-scale illegal mining on surface water and
Currently, illegal artisanal mining (‘galamsey’) has impacted the environment negatively, resulting in land degradation and water pollution. The government of Ghana, responding to public outcry against the negative effects of ‘galamsey’, placed a ban on illegal small-scale mining activities in March 2017. This ban stopped both ‘legal ...
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Ghanaian Court Jails the Notorious Chinese “Galamsey
2023.12.5 Convicted illegal miner Aisha Huang (aka the "Galamsey Queen") was escorted by police from the High Court in Accra, Ghana on Decembert 4, 2023. Image via JoyOnline. Aisha Huang will spend the next four and a half years in a Ghanaian jail cell after the Accra High Court handed down a ruling on Monday that dominated the news in the
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Ghana's illegal mining continues because the rules and
2022.11.2 The study identified two key related factors that drive illegal mining in Ghana. First, the mines are transient but getting a mining license is time-consuming. Second, the regulatory framework ...
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A Political Economy of Regulatory Policy: The Case of
2020.6.24 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,
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'GALAMSEY' A Canker In Western Region - Modern Ghana
2013.6.29 In the Western Region, Artisanal and Small- Scale Mining (ASM), which is also called 'galamsey', is a practice dating back to pre-historic days. The miners usually dig gold from the earth, wash away the soil and gravels and gather the mineral and sell; hence, the name, 'gather them and sell'. which has now metamorphosed into 'galamsey'.
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Mapping and Monitoring Small-Scale Mining Activities in
2020.3.12 Illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) in South-Western Ghana has grown tremendously in the last decade and caused significant environmental degradation. Excessive cloud cover in the area has limited the use of optical remote sensing data to map and monitor the extent of these activities. This study investigated the use of annual time
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Effects of Illegal Mining on the Environment, Economy, and
2021.6.4 The mining of minerals has contributed enormously to most African countries' economies. However, the activities involved in these sectors have turned to hunt our environment and human life due to the lack of regulation in this sector. This paper is a review of the effects of illegal mining on the environment, the economy and agricultural
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