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Challenges of Land Acquisition in the Mining Communities of Tarkwa, Ghana. Edward Attimo Amihyiah KWESI, Peter Ekow BAFFOE and Kwame TENADU, Ghana. Key …

Living with conflicts in Ghana's Prestea mining area: Is community engagement the answer? Obed Adonteng Kissi. 2017, Journal of Sustainable Mining.

This paper examines the dynamics of the ongoing conflict in Prestea, Ghana, where indigenous galamsey mining groups are operating illegally on a concession awarded to Bogoso Gold Ltd. (BGL ...

The Ahafo gold mine, Newmont's first mine in Ghana, has been implicated in human rights abuses and irresponsible practices since before it began operating in 2006. The mine is located in a farming region northwest of the country's capital Accra and has caused major displacement and social impacts. In October, 2009, a cyanide spill …

Prestea is an old mining town. in the Western Region of the south-western part of Ghana. It is. about 50 km north of the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Prestea is the. forty-sixth most populous town ...

Ghana has abundant mineral reserves in many of its regions, and gold mining remains one of the country's main sources of revenue. Given Ghana's current position in the global gold market, this review provides insight into the ASGM sector to give an understanding of the pertinent issues in the sector and its role in the socio-economic …

ASM is the supplier of minerals for the Jewelry Industry in Ghana. Serve as Precursors to Large Scale Exploration Companies (Pathfinders) Contribution towards Community Development through Implementation of CSR projects. ASM Contributed 43% (2.1 million oz) of total gold production in 2018, 36% in 2019, 30% in 2020 and.

Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective. Uwafiokun Idemudia, Corresponding Author. Uwafiokun Idemudia ... meet their responsibility to respect human rights and ensure that environmental rights of community members in mining areas are not violated. By privileging community voices, …

Mining Policy, Water Conflicts and Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana : Perspectives from the Wassa West District

On June 17, 2019, the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) army deployed close to 800 troops in an attack on its own citizens. The soldiers torched the small village of Kafwaya in an effort to expel more than 10,000 artisanal miners—small-scale miners who use basic tools—from one of the DRC's largest copper-cobalt mines, the …

Keywords: galamsey; mining; Ghana; gold; conflicts; ... are located within the areas of influence of their mining projects and which are frequently inhabited by artisanal miners" (Hentschel et ...

Abstract This paper critiques the approach being taken in Ghana to implement Alternative Livelihood (AL) projects in mining communities. The rapid insurgence of illegal artisanal gold mining has forced policymakers to think more creatively about ways in which to deal with mounting unemployment in the country's rural areas. …

After series of surveys conducted in mining communities within the Diaso Area programme, World Vision noticed that small-scale mining was the most commo Rescuing and igniting hope for children …

The Wassa West District of Ghana (Fig.1) is one area where conflicts related to mining activity, environment and water quality has been an issue of great concern. Recently, conflicts between local communities and mining companies concerning water quality have been a recurring issue.

The environment, its natural resources and development capacity remains a contentious element in the development process of human society. In Ghana, similarly as Africa and other developing countries, there is a huge dependence of environmental resources for economic growth and development. Mining gold resources is directly …

We then addressed the question of conflict in the context of illegal sand mining and found that nonviolent conflict occurred in 21 of the 35 countries in which sand was mined illegally, while violent conflict occurred in six countries, namely Algeria, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, and The Gambia—all of which also saw nonviolent conflict.

Abstract. Discourses on "illegal" or informal small‐scale mining (galamsey) have presented it largely as a menace. Using Ghana as the focus of our study, we present a counter‐narrative to ...

In 1993 the government of Ghana established the Minerals Development Fund to, among other things, fund and implement development projects in communities affected by mining. The aim was also to ...

History of Mining in Ghana. There is evidence of gold extraction activities in Ghana as far back as the 7th and 8th centuries A.D., as gold deposits attracted Arab traders into the country.7 These activities were strategically located along rivers where sediments believed to contain deposits of gold were washed constantly to separate the …

The deal has led to a number of protests against bauxite mining in Ghana, particularly at one potential site: The Atewa Forest Reserve. ... The Accra-based …

As of November 2021 the government had approved five community mining schemes with a combined 20 concessions that had the potential to support the livelihood of 26,300 …

Abstract and Figures. This paper examines the dynamics of the ongoing conflict in Prestea, Ghana, where indigenous galamsey mining groups are operating illegally on a concession awarded to Bogoso ...

The concept of conflict diamonds or "blood diamonds" emerged in the late 1990s when it became evident that several violent civil wars in Africa were connected to mining and trading of rough diamonds. In 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey was asked by the U.S. Department of State to help address illegal diamond mining in Africa.

This paper examines the dynamics of the ongoing conflict in Prestea, Ghana, where indigenous galamsey mining groups are operating illegally on a concession awarded to Bogoso Gold Limited (BGL), property of the Canadian-listed multinational Gold Star Resources. Despite being issued firm orders by the authorities to abandon their …

Whilst the Ghanaian Government is in the process of setting aside plots to relocate illegal mining parties and is developing alternative livelihood projects, efforts are far from encouraging: in addition to a series of overlooked logistical problems, the areas earmarked for relocation have not yet been prospected to ascertain gold content, and ...

This project is designed to examine the overall benefits of mining to local communities in Ghana through the lens of community benefits agreements (CBAs) in order to make policy recommendations to the Government of Ghana. ... to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. • Give mining communities better access to legal representation to ...

Using the case of Ghana, where conflicts and trade-offs between mining and forests proliferate, an interdisciplinary and exploratory approach is taken to investigate the impact of mining on forest ...

A new programme led by the UK Home Office to reduce illegal gold mining in Ghana. Conflict, Stability and Security Fund: projects include those that reduce state threats, tackle illegal wildlife ...

Wassa West, for example, in addition to being an important mining area, is also the location ... to the point where by 2003, ASM produced almost 10% of the country's gold. This potentially creates a conflict between PMMC ... military intervention and alternative livelihood projects. Ghana legalised small-scale mining in 1989 when the …