Sixty percent of Ghana’s water bodies are now polluted, largely due to illegal mining activities. Ghana is the leading producer of gold in Africa and about 35% of it is extracted
Read More2009year3month2day This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Fevered by hopes of striking it rich, illegal miners claw sacks of "money stone"—gold
Read More2023year2month8day In Ghana, illegal miners known as galamseyers are carrying out an increasing share of the country’s gold production. In recent years, these miners have been sourcing machinery from China.
Read More2021year8month10day The illegal gold mines killing rivers and livelihoods in Ghana. Sixty percent of Ghana’s water bodies are now polluted, largely due to illegal mining activities.
Read MoreNovember 2, 2022 Ghana's illegal mining continues because the rules and reality are disconnected by Richard Kwaku Kumah, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artisanal and...
Read MoreNovember 4, 2022 Illegal gold mining is spreading rapidly in Ghana. Wikimedia Commons/Flickr Artisanal and small-scale mining – a low-tech, indigenous mining
Read More2018year3month6day Ghana, one of the world's biggest producers of cocoa beans, is facing a crisis around dangerous and dirty galamsey, or informal, mining—which experts warn
Read More2023year5month4day Ghana's widespread illegal mining activities are destroying the gold-rich West African country's forests, the government's forestry agency warned Tuesday at a
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