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Tracking, monitoring of excavators, mining equipment goes online
Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has commissioned a network centre at the Minerals Commission to monitor and track earth moving and mining equipment,…
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OccupyGhana: Akonta Mining case key test to end ‘galamsey’
OccupyGhana, a pressure group, has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to intervene as it seeks for the prosecution of persons behind the operations of Akonta Mining…
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OccupyGhana wants all galamsey lands confiscated to the state
Pressure group, OccupyGhana, has called for an amendment of the law to criminalise the making of land available for galamsey operations, and the confiscation of such lands to the state.…
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Religious leaders call for ban on all small scale-mining activities
Religious leaders in the country have asked government to ban all small-scale mining popularly known as ‘galamsey’ until a comprehensive workable road map is established to ensure…
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Targeting kingpins is among new strategies against galamsey
Government has introduced new measures in a renewed commitment in the fight against illegal small-scale mining popularly called galamsey.
The new measures include concurrent…
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Prosecute Akonta Mining Directors, halt all small-scale mining
The Media Coalition Against Galamsey has called on the Government to order small scale and surface mining activities to stop immediately to allow water bodies and forests to begin to…
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Dame: 187 jailed for galamsey in Eastern Region since 2017
A total of 187 persons charged in 48 cases have been convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for their involvement in illegal mining popularly called galamsey in the…
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2 jailed 20 years each for galamsey
They said unemployment and hunger pushed them into it
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Galamsey reminder: The imminent ecological and food disaster
Mr. President:
It is another Monday and the time for a reminder that Galamsey is destroying the country and that you need to act, and act quickly, to stem the looming and imminent…
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OSP investigates Bissue, Akonta Mining, Prof Frimpong-Boateng
Committee on corruption-related offences related to Galamsey
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