The Need to Regularise Activities of Illegal Small-Scale …
unemployed youth to undertake small-scale mining (SSM). Most of these miners operate illegally even though the SSM law (PNDCL) 218 of 1989 and Act 703 of 2006 define the procedures required for ...
(PDF) Environmental Impacts of Mining: A Study of Mining …
The mining sector in Ghana consists of both small-scale and large-scale mining, each of which has varying environmental impacts. This paper provides an exposition on the environmental impacts of ...
The Need to Regularise Activities of Illegal Small-Scale Mining …
PDF | On Jan 1, 2010, Jerry S. Kuma published The Need to Regularise Activities of Illegal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: A Focus on the Tarkwa-Dunkwa Highway | Find, read and cite all the research ...
(PDF) Sustainable Livelihoods in Artisanal Small-Scale Mining
However, the sustainability of small-scale mining is threatened by lack of skills development programs and the creation of opportunities for continued education with the objective of building the ...
A Case Study of Mining Communities in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem …
A simple random sampling technique was used to select 123 small scale gold miners in the municipality. The study also ascertained why people engage in SSM and determined the effect …
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The small-scale mining activities are located mostly in rural settlements of the country such as the greenstone belts and alluvial areas especially along the Offin, Pra, Ankobra and Tano rivers …
ILLEGAL MINING AS THREAT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA…
Within the past few decades, Ghana's mining sector specifically the small scale mining subsector has been marred by controversies mainly due to its threat to sustainable development.
The Effects of Small Scale Gold Mining on Living Conditions: …
The research involved: (a) the determination of gender and generation roles in small scale mining activities; (b) the determination of the effect of mining activities on employment, education, health, agriculture and cost of living of the people in the district and (c) The identification of the areas of interventions that will eradicate the ...
Movers, Motives, and Impact of Illegal Small-Scale Mining: …
This research unravels the agents and driving motivation behind the rise of illegal small-scale mining in Ghana and its impact. This is accomplished via a qualitative study using illegal small ...
Spatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in …
66 GMJ Vol. 20, , June, 2020 Spatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of Ghana* 1B. Kumi-Boateng and 1E. Stemn 1University of Mine and Technology ...
SMALL-SCALE MINING IN THE TARKWA DISTRICT: A REVIEW OF ITS IMPACTS
activities of small-scale gold mining to make it sustainable and be able to harness its development prospects by putting in more efforts by all stakeholders especially the government. Keywords: …
Ecological Study of Galamsey Activities in Ghana and their
The study was conducted to determine the effects of small-scale mining activities on fisheries and livelihoods along the Birim River in Atiwa District of Ghana, and also, to ascertain the nature ...
Small-Scale Mining, Environment and Livelihoods: …
The environment and livelihoods have come under severe strain in mineral-rich areas with the emergence of mechanised small-scale mining equipment, which generates more than five-fold increase in ...
(PDF) The dynamics and livelihood implications of illegal mining …
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 the ...
Relationship between small-scale gold mining activities …
Ghana, Africa's leading gold producer, has recently been in the spotlight for concerns of unlicensed mining activities polluting surface water sources (Akotey, 2023).Although mining has contributed significantly to the West African nation's economic fortunes and is in some ways a significant part of the country's post-colonial identity, there is a real risk that these …
Hydrogeochemistry and human health risk assessment …
small-scale and illegal mining, nevertheless, 90% of the 20,000 small-scale miners operating now are illegal (Asklund and Eldvall, 2005). Numerous problems concerning heavy metal
(PDF) Effect of small-scale illegal mining on surface water …
The government of Ghana responding to public outcry against the negative effects of "galamsey", placed a ban on illegal small-scale mining activities in March 2017.
(PDF) Sustainable Livelihoods in Artisanal Small …
This study thus explores ways of sustaining livelihoods in the artisanal small-scale mining communities within the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of Ghana.
Effect of small scale mining on the environment in …
Some suggestions have been made to curb the activities of small scale and illegal mining and its impacts on water bodies and the environment. Keywords galamsey, galamseyers, small-scale mining ... Figure 4 Stockpile of sand at a mining site in Tarkwa in the Western region ... During my research, it was observed that many ...
map of tarkwa nsuaem municipality showing distribution of mining
ABSTRACT Galamsey, a low-tech, labour-intensive, small-scale mining activity in Ghana, has recently come under intense criticism and state policing despite being an important livelihood source.
(PDF) Sustainable Livelihoods in Artisanal Small …
The study reveals that the mining activities in the Municipality particulalrly, Tarkwa has resulted in congestion and land use changes and associated challenges where areas have been used for commercial purposes outside the formal …
The impact of small-scale gold mining on …
Key words: small-scale mining, mining communit ies, mining industry, mining. Introduction The Ghanaian mi ning industry can be traced back to t he pre-colonial era with some studies
Injury Profiles Associated with Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining
Type and localization (body part) of injuries self-reported by artisanal and small-scale gold miners in the Tarkwa (Ghana) study sites according to age and duration of mining.
Spatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale …
This is because the presence of small-scale mining activities along the river could be an indication of the high concentration of sediments, mercury and other heavy metals in the river, which makes water from the river unsuitable for human …
(PDF) SMALL-SCALE MINING AND LAND DEGRADATION: A …
Abbontiakoon Small-Scale Mine is located in Abbontiakoon, a suburb of Tarkwa, in the Western Region of Ghana. The small-scale miners are mining an old waste dump of the defunct Tarkwa Goldfields ...
POST-MINING RECLAMATION IN ARTISANAL AND …
(a small-scale mine at Tarkwa, Ghana), the small-scale mines do not receive any support for reclamation. Financial and technical assistance they receive have been sourced from organizations such ...
IMPACT OF MINING SECTOR INVESTMENT IN GHANA: …
effects of the mining sector reforms implemented under the structural adjustment programme, with particular reference to affected mining communities in the Tarkwa mining area. The specific aims are reflected in the terms of reference for this project, which include: 1. A concise account of the growth and development dynamics of the mining industry
(PDF) Assessing the Environmental and Socio …
The research involved: (a) the determination of gender and generation roles in small scale mining activities; (b) the determination of the effect of mining activities on employment, education, health, agriculture and cost of living of the people …
(PDF) The impact of artisanal small-scale mining on …
In Ghana, many measures have been put in place based on integrated approaches by involving relevant stakeholders, legalizing artisanal mining through the Small-Scale Gold Mining Law in 1989 (PNDCL ...
The Socio-environmental impacts of small-scale mining …
The research involved: (a) the determination of gender and generation roles in small scale mining activities; (b) the determination of the effect of mining activities on employment, education, health, agriculture and cost of living of the people in the district and (c) The identification of the areas of interventions that will eradicate the ...