Tag Archives: Small Scale Miners Association

According to the small-scale miners, the government's decision to offer incentives for reporting gold smugglers is unfair and counterproductive. They argue that the focus should be on addressing the root causes of smuggling rather than penalizing the already struggling miners....

Hon. Stephen Yakubu, the Upper East Regional Minister responded to the alleged allegation that he and the CEO of the Minerals Commission, Martin K. Ayisi, requested the small-scale miners to buy furniture for the Upper East conference room of the...

Some traditional leaders in the Asante-Akim Central Municipality and Amansie West District of Ashanti are advocating for government to introduce a reclamation bond in the small-scale mining. This, they believed, was the way to go to restore degraded mine sites,...

The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has questioned why chiefs should give out their lands for galamsey. According to Osei Tutu II who was speaking in a regional consultative dialogue on small-scale mining at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science...

The Small-Scale Miners Association has threatened a three-day nationwide ant-government demonstration if the authorities at the helm of the illegal small-scale mining activities (galamsey) do not stop burning their equipment. At a press conference at Ntaferewaso in the Twifo-Atti Morkwa District...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has authorised the Ghana Armed Forces to commence an operation to remove all persons and logistics involved in mining from the country’s water bodies. The operation commenced today, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 on the River...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his fight against illegal small-scale mining will not be based on hearsay and unsubstantiated allegations. At a national dialogue on small-scale mining organised by the Minister of Land and Natural Resources in Accra on Wednesday,...