China's Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining has received Ghana's approval to proceed with the acquisition of Golden Star Resources (TSX: GSC), which owns 90% of the Wassa gold mine in the country's ...
In Ghana, the small-scale gold mining industry has been 'reserved for Ghanaians' by law, often using rudimentary means of extraction. The last decade has seen a large increase in foreign involvement, especially from Chinese miners. ... By 2013, the participation of Chinese citizens in informal mining in Ghana had grown to such proportions ...
Traditionally, small-scale gold mining in Ghana has been carried out by locals on their own land using hand-operated tools. These methods have slowly modernised and expanded, but the recent influx of foreign – predominantly Chinese – miners has accelerated this development. This is …
A Chinese mining company has revealed that it lost 12kg (26lbs) of gold – worth US$900,000 – in an armed robbery in Ghana earlier this year. Shenzhen-listed gold mining firm Beijing Xiaocheng ...
ASGM in Ghana has been a traditional and indigenous activity for centuries, dating back to the fifteenth century when mercury was first used in gold extraction (Dummet 1998; Tsuma 2010: 10, see also Pijpers, this volume).Although widely practised, ASGM was formally illegal in Ghana until 1989, when the Small-Scale Gold Mining Law (PNDCL 218) legalised …
Chinese Mining Companies Move Forward With Two Huge Deals Worth More Than a Billion Dollars in Ghana, DRC. The Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is on track for first …
A gold rush in the resource-rich west African country of Ghana, led by an estimated 50,000 Chinese prospectors, is threatening to turn nasty amid allegations of illegal mining and escalating ...
Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining has also ventured into Ghana, sealing a deal to buy Resolute's Bibiani gold mine in December. In a statement to Reuters, Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining said investment in developed countries, such as Australia and Canada, is "not active" because assets there are 10% to 30% more expensive than those in West Africa and South …
Legal gold mining is also a cause of deforestation, but Guuroh explains the difference. ... Illicit Chinese Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: Beyond Institutional Weakness? Sustainability, 11(21), 5943 ...
According to Toni Aubynn, head of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, the "mechanization of artisanal mining" by the Chinese, who make use of bulldozers, pay loaders and other forms of heavy machinery ...
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 ...
Heavily armed soldiers have fired shots to disperse protesters in the gold mining town of Obuasi, in the Ashanti region of Ghana, amid an army crackdown on miners whom the government sees as illegal.
More than 120 Chinese nationals have been arrested in Ghana as part of a renewed clampdown against illegal mining. Growing numbers of Chinese have been going into Ghana, Africa's second-biggest ...
The General Manager of Shandong Gold Group, the parent company of Cardinal Namdini Mining Ltd., Mr. Hang Li, has assured the Government of Ghana of its commitment to pour its first gold at the ...
Over the past year, MINING has kept a close eye on illegal Chinese gold mining in Ghana. At its peak, an estimated 50,000 Chinese miners were operating illegally in the country.
debates around chinese involvement in ghana's artisanal gold mining surged in 2013 when the John Mahama government launched a campaign to 'flush out' Chinese migrants engaged in galamsey. 1 Similar operations continued in the following years. The current Nana Akufo-Addo administration pledges to end illegal mining through more proactive military …
Rise of chinese involvement in small-scale gold mining The research examined two forms of Chinese involvement in small-scale mining in Ghana. The first entailed the influx from 2006 of irregular Chinese migrants into the main area of alluvial gold mining in …
Ghanaian police have arrested 124 Chinese citizens over suspicions that they are involved in illegal gold mining activities. Last month John Dramani Mahama, the president of …
In Manso Akropong, the intensification of mining backed by Ghanaian–Chinese collaborations has led to the environmental destruction, creating competition between gold …
The Gold Rush Ghana is a major gold exporter and the precious metal remains one of the vital sources of revenue for the nation. In 2020, gold contributed close to GHC 7.8 billion, roughly 1.3 billion U.S. dollars to Ghana's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, an estimated $2.3 billion worth of illegally-mined gold left Ghana in 2016.
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 …
The mine is one of Ghana's newest gold operations and it is located in the country's Ashanti Region. Both companies have set up a number of working groups whose objective is to make sure that ...
This merger gave Newmont complete ownership of two mining projects in Ghana, Ahafo in the Brong Ahafo region and Akyem, located in the Birim North District. ... With a mature gold mine in Ahafo and a much younger …
A Chinese mining company has revealed that it lost 12kg (26lbs) of gold - worth US$900,000 - in an armed robbery in Ghana earlier this year. Shenzhen-listed gold mining firm Beijing Xiaocheng ...
Illegal gold mining in Ghana further exacerbates a volatile cocoa market. In 2014, experts predicted a global cocoa shortage by 2020. However, cocoa production statistics have been unpredictable ...
The informal character of Ghana's gold mining economy has been heavily overlooked in discussions on the growing population of Chinese galamsey operators. ... As is the case with gold mining, scores of Chinese families have migrated to sections of rural sub-Saharan Africa, where they have opened shops and engaged in local trade, seeking their ...
Newmont Corp. has kicked off the sale of its Akyem gold mine in Ghana, which is attracting interest from potential bidders including Chinese producers amid soaring prices for the metal,...
A Chinese mining company has revealed that it lost 12kg (26lbs) of gold – worth US$900,000 – in an armed robbery in Ghana earlier this year. Shenzhen-listed gold mining …
Soon, Chinese money and people started showing up wherever in the continent minerals were abundant. And in Ghana the mineral in question was gold. Ghana is Africa's second-largest gold producer after South Africa. Illegal mining by Chinese nationals there has destroyed large areas of forest and polluted lakes and rivers. Tens of thousands of ...
Mechanized mining is causing severe damage to local ecosystems, says Reginald Guuroh, researcher at the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana and specialist in land reclamation after illegal mining.
Gold mining is a global business with operations on every continent, except Antarctica, and gold is extracted from mines of widely varying types and scale. At a country level, China was the largest producer in the world in 2023 and accounted for around 10 per cent of total global production. Our interactive gold mining map provides a breakdown ...
The Namdini site in Ghana, Shandong Gold Mining Co's first asset in Africa, is entering the full development phase. Shandong Gold Mining Co is a Chinese gold producer with a strong Ghanaian presence. Its subsidiary in the country, headed by Zang Hongxun, has started preliminary construction work on the future mine, which is located in Ghana's far north.
Nevertheless, significant numbers still remain in Ghana despite the ongoing government moratorium on all small-scale mining. The contemporary China-Ghana gold rush has also been distinct from historical Chinese gold rushes in Australia and the Americas due to the socio-economic status of the Chinese miners themselves. While historically ...
As part of a controversial $2 billion deal struck with China in 2018, Ghana has set its sights on mining the forests of the Upper Guinean Forest, a delicate tropical forest that is vital to the ...
