6 June 2013. Ghana is one of Africa's biggest gold producers. At least 124 Chinese nationals suspected of illegal gold mining have been detained in Ghana, officials say. Chinese officials said
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· Since the early 2000s, about 50,000 Chinese gold miners have migrated to Ghana to engage in small-scale mining (locally known as galamsey), defined as the exploitation of mineral deposits through the use of rudimentary equipment and involving low levels of production with minimal capital investment, and by law reserved for only
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Thus, demographic challenges are motivating factors for the over 50,000 irregular Chinese migrants who entered Ghana in 2000-13 to engage in illegal gold mining. They are tagged as the “Shanglin
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· The Chinese dominate the supply chain of illegal small‐scale mining with their financial, technical, managerial acumen, the sale and transfer of gold proceeds, and political patronage.
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December 4, 202310:02 AM PSTUpdated 7 months ago. ACCRA, Dec 4 (Reuters)-A Ghanaian court has sentenced a Chinese national to prison for illegal gold mining in the West African nation, her
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· 38 Chinese nationals caught mining for gold illegally in the west African nation of Ghana have been arrested and deported. The Washington Post reports that China’s embassy to Ghana made the
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· Her arrest and recent sentencing are emblematic of Ghana’s serious, ongoing problem with Chinese involvement in illegal artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASM). A Ghanaian court on December 4 sentenced Huang to 4½ years in prison and levied a $4,000 fine for running an illegal mining operation. Authorities told reporters that she
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:Chinese Illegal Gold Mining GhanaIllegal MinersGolden Migrants · Key among them is the problem of illegal small-scale gold mining activities (ISSGMAs), which is mercilessly robbing the nation of its ecological integrity,
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· In 2006 small numbers of Chinese and other foreign miners came to Ghana to engage in gold mining. Then a hike in gold prices from 2008 onwards led to a veritable gold rush and the arrival of
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:Golden MigrantsPublish Year:2020 · This article investigates factors that attract Chinese migrants into illegal small‐scale mining in Ghana, their role in the supply chain, and the impact of their
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· It is the undisputed mining hub of West Africa, and is dominated by two main gold mining sectors: the large scale mining sector (LSM) and small-scale or artisanal small-scale mining (SSM/ASM). Within the small-scale gold mining sector is “galamsey”, a local term used in Ghana for illegal or unregulated gold mining operations.
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Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Illegal Chinese gold mining in Amansie West, Ghana-an assessement of its impact and implications" by Jørgen Stangeland Bach Corpus ID: 133460794 Illegal Chinese gold mining in Amansie West, Ghana-an assessement of
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· Abstract. This short piece argues how Ghana is struggling to strike a balance between maintaining good relations with Beijing and cracking down on illegal Chinese mining operations. Content may be
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· In Ghana, the number of Chinese citizens involved in illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply in recent years. Reports suggest that since 2005, as many as 50,000 gold prospectors have left China for Ghana. 1
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Causes of Illegal Gold Mining in Ghana Literature and observations highlight what is classified in this paper as major and minor causes of illegal mining in Ghana. These are conditions that compel people to venture into artisanal mining and by their modes of operation and in the light of regulations considered as illegal mining.
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· In May 2019, Ghana is rumoured to have recently overtaken South Africa as Africa’s largest gold producer. Gold represents up to 49 per cent of the country’s exports, contributing $8.35 billion to Ghana’s $59 billion GDP. With gold trading at over $1,274.15 an ounce in mid 2019, four times the value twenty years ago, it represents a
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· The threat seemed to work. By the end of the three weeks, over 500 excavators used in informal artisanal gold mining – known locally as “galamsey” – had reportedly been voluntarily removed from mining
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DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2023.101356 Corpus ID: 263683886 Chinese participation in Ghana's illegal small-scale gold mining: Linking local pull factors to distributional inequities This study delves into the intricate social dynamics of South Kalimantan’s traditional diamond
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· Operation Vanguard has arrested 1,129 illegal miners and destroyed 7,000 pieces of illegal mining equipment, reporting a success rate of 75 % on the clamp down on illegal mining (Pein, 2018). The security task force, however, also contributed to some level of chaos, characterized by violent confrontations and even fatalities, with some illegal
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· Recent interest by governmental, non-governmental and civil society organisations in monitoring, tracing, tracking and flushing out illegal mining activities in Ghana has intensified due to the fact that large tracts of arable lands, forests and water resources are destroyed by this group of illegal miners. Yet, the scale of operation,
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· Ghana’s renewed fight against illegal mining between 2017 and 2021 saw the arrests of hundreds of Chinese illegal miners either as sponsors or workers at illegal mining sites. However, statistics of foreign nationals in Ghana’s prisons, which the Ghana Prisons Service provided to The Fourth Estate , showed that as of July 2021, only
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· Ghana, known as the “Gold Coast,” has a long history of gold mining. However, the lure of quick profits has led to a surge in illegal mining activities, wreaking havoc on the environment
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· Artisanal and small-scale mining – a low-tech, indigenous mining subsector – is taking on increasing economic importance in many developing countries. Over 150 million people worldwide are
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· It is their involvement that enabled the far-reaching transformation of ASGM that has been described throughout this chapter. The second defining characteristic of gold mining in Ghana is the sheer extent of corruption amongst Ghanaian state officials, who have indirectly enabled the entry of “illegal” Chinese miners.
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· The Chinese dominate the supply chain of illegal small-scale mining with their financial, technical, managerial acumen, the sale and transfer of gold proceeds, and political patronage. This dominance accounts for the massive negative social, economic, environmental, and political impact of illegal small-scale mining in the country.
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:Chinese Illegal Gold Mining GhanaIllegal Miners · A Ghanaian court has sentenced a Chinese national to prison for illegal gold mining in the West African nation, her lawyer said on Monday, ending a case that
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· Between 2008 and 2016, over 50,000 Chinese gold seekers migrated to rural Ghana to engage in illegal ASM, aided at various levels, by local collaborators (Hausermann et al., 2020). In Ghana, ASM has traditionally been carried out mainly by locals in a rudimentary fashion, using basic tools like chisels and pans for mining and
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:GhanaIllegal Gold Mining · This article investigates factors that attract Chinese migrants into illegal small-scale mining in Ghana, their role in the supply chain, and the impact of their
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Thus, demographic challenges are motivating factors for the over 50,000 irregular Chinese migrants who entered Ghana in 2000-13 to engage in illegal gold mining. They are tagged as the “Shanglin gang” because they mostly hailed from the poverty stricken Shanglin County in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
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In Ghana, 'a burgeoning illegal Chinese mining population has re-routed rivers and flooded roads used by villagers to access markets, seized farmlands unscrupulously, and bulldozed moats
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