Over $117 million in gold and $98 million in diamond product has been obtained from small-scale mining operations since complete legalization of the industry in 1989. Gold production from the small-scale gold-mining industry has increased nearly tenfold since 1989, from 17,234oz in 1990 to 107,093oz in 1997.

In Wassa West district of Ghana, mining as an industry has been promoted in the recent past, but with significant impact on environmental aspects, especially water, leading to …

This article attempts to understand the causes underlying the mining-related water conflicts in Ghana using the TOV theory. Using this theory, the article proposes a practical framework for enhanced effective participation of members from local host communities that in turn can enable resolving the existing conflicts and preventing the same in ...

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 area covered by the Pra River Basin—including parts of Ghana's Central, Western, and Ashanti regions—is the country's cocoa heartland. It also holds the highest concentration of gold ...

The underlying issue associated with conflicts in mining communities focuses on the imbalance between the impacts of mining and its benefits. 24 One end of the spectrum depicts the harmful effects of the mining experience in the mining communities. For example, Newmont's official in Peru stated, "we have the concession, …

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 …

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, …

In Ghana, a significant cause of conflict is the failure of the sector's growth to adequately trickle down and improve the living conditions and overall …

Atewa Forest Reserve in the Eastern Region of Ghana represents one of only two reserves with upland evergreen forests in Ghana but is also a possible site for bauxite mining. The Government of Ghana deployed an infrastructure in anticipation for a refined bauxite agreement with China. Ghana's Government seeks to develop an …

Mining-induced displacement and resettlement is not only an issue of individual human rights violations, but also of collective rights, community-company conflicts, the struggle …

This municipality was chosen as it is in the heartland of the main alluvial gold mining area in southern Ghana, and a centre of Chinese involvement in small-scale mining. ... London Hilson, G. and Yakovelva, N. (2007)'Strained relations: A critical analysis of the mining conflict in Prestea, Ghana', Political Geography, vol 26, no 1,pp98 ...

A third area that presents the potential for conflict is "galamsey"—the illegal artisanal and small-scale mining of natural resources, namely gold, bauxite, and manganese. Illegal mining was not a government priority until 2017, leaving significant gaps in regulatory frameworks and environmental protections.

It included six pillars: land reclamation and reforestation; the development of agriculture and agro-processing activities; apprenticeships, skills training and entrepreneurship; …

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 …

Increases in both large-scale mining and SSM activity have led to an intensification of conflict in areas surrounding operations over access to mineral-rich lands (Hilson, 2001, Hilson, 2002a, Hilson, 2002b, Hilson and Potter, 2005, Gamu et al., 2015).The Government of Ghana continues to work to attract foreign investment to …

Sources and causes of conflict in Prestea mining communities. The dominant source of conflicts in Prestea is land use conflicts (75) representing 93.8% and the least source of conflicts is environmental pollution related conflicts (5) representing …

Abstract. This paper critically explores the key issues of grievance and conflict unfolding in Ghana's gold mining industry. It examines the dynamics of conflict between illegal artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) and one large-scale mining company, AngloGold Ashanti, in Obuasi. The paper reveals the peculiar nature of the …

Keywords: Environmental Resources, Conflicts, Ghana, Gold Mining, and Livelihood . 65 Journal of Sustainable Development Studies 1. Introduction Across the globe, several processes of socio-economic, environmental and political ... communities and urban areas. The mining sector has been at the fulcrum of intense controversy and trajectories ...

Conflicts have sparked around the new gold mining projects in many of the emerging gold mining countries, such as Burkina Faso (Engels 2015, Engels forthcoming), Guinea (Bolay 2014), Ghana (Okoh ...

Mining, Forests and Land-use Conflict: The Case of Ghana Mark Alexander Hirons School of Agriculture, Policy and Development Submitted for the degree of PhD in International & Rural

Landguardism has become a bane in Ghana's urban land markets. Previous studies have qualitatively explored the drivers of this phenomenon from the perspectives of both state agencies and landguards themselves. Despite the insights uncovered, understanding of public perceptions about the factors driving landguardism in Ghana is …

Okoh GA (2014) Grievance and conflict in Ghana's gold mining industry: The case of Obuasi. Futures 62((Part A)):51–57. Article Google Scholar Snapir B, Simms DM, Waine TW (2017) Mapping the expansion of galamsey gold mines in the cocoa growing area of Ghana using optical remote sensing.

Ghana is Africa's largest gold producer, the sixth globally.It produced approximately 129 metric tonnes in 2021.. Gold mining in Ghana stretches back over 1000 years. It first served as a ...

In Wassa West district of Ghana, mining as an industry has been promoted in the recent past, but with significant impact on environmental aspects, especially water, leading to conflicts between ...

Land use conflicts are becoming increasingly apparent from local to global scales. Surface gold mining is an extreme source of such a conflict, but mining impacts on local livelihoods often remain unclear. Our goal here was to assess land cover change due to gold surface mining in Western Ghana, one of the world's leading gold mining …

The study identified two key related factors that drive illegal mining in Ghana. First, the mines are transient but getting a mining licence is time-consuming. Second, the regulatory framework ...

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.

Some of the most serious mining-community disputes have involved groups and large-scale miners. indigenous artisanal mining1. 1 Throughout this paper, the terms "artisanal mining" and "small ...

A Perspective on Ghana's Mining Sector. Sam Sarpong. Abstract. The report explores the extractive sector in Ghana. It looks at corporate engagement with. stakeholders, particularly with the ...