Azumah Resources Ltd, a prominent mining firm prospecting for gold in the area, finds itself embroiled in accusations of monopolising mining concessions to the detriment of locals in the host ...
The Minerals Commission of Ghana is the Government agency with the primary responsibility of developing and coordinating mineral sector policies and monitoring their implementation.
Dealing with Galamsey and Small-scale Mining on Concessions of Multinational Mining Companies in Ghana: "a Compromise or Confrontation" About This Study. This paper tries to look at the composition of Ghana's mining industry which is made up of two sectors which are the galamsey and small-scale mining and the Large-Scale mining sectors.
"The small-scale is not so capital intensive. About GH¢ 10,000 can start a mining operation. Local mining companies pay about 10% of what foreign companies pay in terms of licensing fees," Ahadzi said. The Ghana government over the period has supported identifiable small-scale mining groups in Prestea, Konongo and Bolgatanga.
Three years after the memo raised the alarm, the EPA was pushing for the passage of LI 2462, which appears to have attracted even more interest in mining in Ghana's forest reserves.
2.1: MINING IN GHANA Ghana's geological landscape teems with a variety of minerals with the commercially exploited ones being gold, diamond, manganese and bauxite. In 2020, gold accounted for 97.2 per cent of gross mineral revenue while the respective shares of manganese, bauxite and diamond were 2.25 per cent, 0.54 per cent and 0.01 per cent.
Conflicts have increasingly arisen between the large-scale mining companies, which have legally acquired their mining concessions, and the numerous small-scale or artisanal miners operating illegally in the large-scale mining concessions (Hilson, 2002a, 2002b; Nyame and Blocher, 2010; Nyame and Grant, 2014; Geenen, 2014; Andrews, 2015).
Within the past few decades, Ghana's mining sector specifically the small scale mining subsector has been marred by controversies mainly due to its threat to sustainable development.
Azumah Resources Ltd, a prominent mining firm prospecting for gold in the area, finds itself embroiled in accusations of monopolising mining concessions to the detriment of …
Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2016. Using in-depth ethnographic analysis of Kejetia's artisanal gold mining community in Tongo (Northern Ghana), this article argues that governance is based on artisanal gold miners' three-dimensional orientation towards both 'above-ground' social-political relations and regulations (a geometrically two-dimensional orientation) and the …
mining concessions in Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)', which proposes to study the impact of transnational mining companies' activities in African mining areas in a novel fashion. It presents a lot of interview material that was …
AI can be used to establish geofences around authorized mining concessions, ensuring that mining activities do not encroach on protected areas such as water bodies and forests. ... AI offers promising solutions to the complex problem of illegal mining in Ghana. Through satellite imagery analysis, drone surveillance, predictive analytics, and ...
mining concessions', Luning and Pijpers (2017) discuss important political issues around mining in Ghana. Using the companies Keegan and Newmont as ... export commodities, this meant that, without a crackdown on gold mining, Ghana would be losing out as a major cocoa supplier in international trade. Mining gold in Ghana: debate 865
to nationalise and expropriate existing mining concessions based on grounds of public utility, security or the national interest1.
Drawing on a study of two gold concessions in Ghana, this article focuses on three factors that influence modalities of governing access to gold in such sites: the stage of a mining operation, the local socio-political context, and the characteristics of the subterranean structure.
Since its inception, GELL has established a corporate governance framework to fully adhere to the Ghana's legislative requirements, regulations, processes, and procedures. ... the break caused by the COVID pandemic to research and develop the mining and processing of a significant number of mining concessions in Ghana by 2021.
This is particularly relevant to the Ghana case because several of the large concessions demarcated to multinational mining companies contain numerous 'fertile' areas for small-scale farming, as well as deposits uneconomical to extract on a large scale but which are appropriate for artisanal mining (see Hilson and Yakovleva, 2007; Hilson et ...
in two gold mining concessions in Ghana * Dora NEINA 1, Eric Van RANST 2 and Ann VERDOODT 3 . 1 Department of Soil Science, School of Agriculture, Un iversity of Ghana, P. O. Box LG 245, Legon ...
In addition to their active concessions, the is actively seeking permits to mine in more forest reserves. Between them, they have registered at least five mining companies: Limespec Mining Limited and Hapic Mining Limited were incorporated just three days apart, on September 19, 2022, and September 22, 2022, respectively. This was two ...
Mining Cadastre The implementation of Mining Cadastre Administration System (MCAS) at the Minerals Commission seeks to improve and strengthen current levels of compliance checks and license administration procedures and practices. READ MORE Industry Statistics Monthly statistics of Gold produced and transported by the various mining companies on both small …
Studies of articulations between large- and small-scale mining have overlooked the subterranean dimension of extraction and ignored how mining companies and artisanal miners cohabit in places with long histories of small-scale mining and are affected
Former President John Dramani Mahama has unveiled a comprehensive plan aimed at eradicating illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) and reviving Ghana's deteriorating environment should he win the...
for the mining sector in Ghana. This Act is supported by other legislations which provide legal, fiscal and institutional frameworks that govern the sector. These include the Minerals Commission Act, 1993 (Act 450), Minerals and Mining (General) Regulations, 2012 (L.I 2173), Minerals & Mining Licences Regulations 2012, (LI
Additionally, in Ghana, landowners' cultivation rights under the institution of chieftaincy can conflict with large-scale mining companies' mining concessions under mineral law, further complicating the situation (ICLG, 2023). These dynamics leave 'shadows' in mining governance so that the sector includes diverse actors with competing ...
All documents covering the mining concession are available for your review and cross-checking on-Site Plan, Land Title Deeds, Indentures, Permits and relevant Certificates from Ghana Natural Resources and Minerals Commission and site visit by the investor is the most important aspect of the gold mining concession in Ghana. The gold mining is ...
ICLG - Mining Laws and Regulations - Ghana Chapter covers common issues in mining laws and regulations – including the acquisition of rights, ownership requirements and restrictions, processing, transfer and …
GHANA MINING & ENERGY SUMMIT (2017) ACCRA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE MAY 31, 2017 DR TONI AUBYNN (CEO, MINERALS COMMISSION) OPPORTUNITIES IN GHANA'S MINING VALUE CHAIN. ... –Tendering of new mineral concessions for the exploration of base metals (Copper, Lead Zinc) and
This report is part of my research project (FWO postdoctoral fellowship) on 'hybrid governance in mining concessions in Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)', which proposes …
Weak enforcement of Laws and Regulations pertaining to mining in Ghana, even as it broke out on large scale mining concessions 8. Drivers of illegal Mining- Cont'd The spate of illegal mining increased from @ 2004, in tandem with the steady appreciation in price of Gold
either as a block (21hectares) or blocks of mining concessions joined together. Mostly largescale - concessions run into hundreds of kilometers cutting across districts within a particular region of Ghana. There is rigid ... like Ghana, mining can never be a reliably sustainable alternative to agriculture. Just like food crops, vast
The image above shows gold mining encroachment in the Upper Wassaw Forest Reserve, a habitat for the green-tailed bristlebill and Tai Forest treefrog, which are classified as species of conservation concern.The image was captured on April 30, 2020, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. Out of 28 protected areas in southwestern Ghana, Upper …
Former President John Dramani Mahama has unveiled a comprehensive plan aimed at eradicating illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) and reviving Ghana's deteriorating environment should he win the ...