Large Scale Mining Concessions In Ghana
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In addition to gold, diamonds, manganese and bauxite are the minerals mainly mined on a large-scale in Ghana. Large-scale operations, which are both surface and underground designs, and feature sophisticated machinery and novel mineral recovery ... operate illicitly in other large-scale mining concessions, or become underpaid …
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Drawing on a study of two gold concessions in Ghana, this article focuses on three factors that influence modalities of governing access to gold in such sites: the stage of a mining …
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Since colonial rule and the introduction of modern, large-scale concession-based mining in Ghana, artisanal mining has been treated as an informal sector. Until the last couple of decades, the two different scales of mining co-existed, accessing the same land resource but mostly operating at differing depths using different techniques ...
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Consequently, the disgruntled youth of communities develop an inclination to resort to illegal small-scale mining on large-scale exploration and mining concessions, leading to conflicts. These sorts of conflicts are common in developing countries, including Ghana (Hilson, 2002a).
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Mining in Ghana occurs by actors at two scales: large-scale mining companies and the more numerous small-scale mining operations locally referred to as galamsey, pidgin for "gather and sell ...
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The Las Cristinas region, which the lease encompassed, had, since the 1950s, been the site of intensive ASM activity and at the time the Government of Venezuela decided to demarcate the area as large-scale mining concessions, was home to 10,000 operators and their families (Sweeting & Clark, 2000). In early-1996, mine management, …
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A Community Mining area is land that has been designated by the Minister responsible for Mines to encourage responsible mining by the community in accordance with Act 703 or a portion of a concession of a large-scale mining lease that has been permitted for the purpose of the tributer system.
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Conflicts between large-scale mining enterprises, galamsey, and local farmers were strongest where mining enterprises excluded small-scale miners from mining concessions (Hilson 2002a, b). Another study analyzing employment benefits of small-scale gold and diamond mining in Ghana suggests that these benefits are …
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Appendix 2: Sizes of Concessions Recently Granted for Large-Scale Salt Production in and ... "systematic and sustainable development of Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in Ghana".
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In 2011, while studying the relation between large-scale and small-scale gold mining in the western region of Ghana, we were invited to visit a concession where the Canadian …
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This is particularly relevant to the Ghana case because several of the large concessions demarcated to multinational mining companies contain numerous 'fertile' areas for small-scale farming, as well as deposits uneconomical to extract on a large scale but which are appropriate for artisanal mining (see Hilson and Yakovleva, 2007; Hilson …
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ations in the small-scale mining sector. Some large-scale mining companies, that have allowed small-scale miners to work as tributers on their concessions, support the miners through training programmes and provision of equipment. Notable among these companies is Abosso Goldfields Limited, which began this management strategy when it
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In Ghana for instance, land-use changes have been reported in Tarkwa, Bogoso/Prestea, and Damang where a large number of gold mining concessions are recorded (Doso Jnr et al., 2015;Peprah, 2016).
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Request PDF | Governing access to gold in Ghana: In-depth geopolitics on mining concessions | Studies of articulations between large- and small-scale mining have overlooked the subterranean ...
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In 2011, while studying the relation between large-scale and small-scale gold mining in the western region of Ghana, we were invited to visit a concession where the Canadian mining company Keegan Resources was about to move from the stage of exploration to industrial mining. The CEO of the company,
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Illegal mining is defined locally (Ghanaian context) as mining operations in which miners without a license have no concessions of their own operate uncontrollably within concessions of large-scale mining companies or in areas prohibited for mining (Aryee, 2003; Hilson et al., 2013).
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As a result, in 1901–1902, 4000 new mining concession applications were filed (Jackson 1992: 175). ... Moreover, while large-scale mining operations in Ghana had typically been underground operations, the introduction of cyanidation techniques across the world towards the end of the twentieth century ...
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Land use conflicts between small- and large-scale miners have mainly occurred within Tarkwa and the Ashanti (near Oda) Region of Ghana, the locations of the country's richest gold deposits (see Fig. 2).To reiterate, small-scale miners, most of whom are galamsey, are commonly found to be mining within the concessions of large-scale …
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The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Abu Jinapor, has assured large-scale mining companies of the government's commitment to protect their concessions.
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Ghana has 20 large-scale mining companies producing gold, diamonds, bauxite, and manganese, and, there are also over 300 registered small-scale mining groups and 90 mine support service companies. What is the key legislation regulating mining in Ghana? ... Obtaining gold mining concession.
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Gleaning lessons from last year's experience, Hon. Jinapor identified galamsey which is typified by encroachment of concessions of large scale mining …
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Gold Mining Concession in Ghana For Sale Accra, Ghana Available On Request Gold. My company is advising a client on the sale of their three large scale gold mining concession in the Eastern, Central and Western region. They are open to establishing an alliance relationship and the gold concession is located in Ghana.
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concessions of large-scale mining companies or in areas prohibited for mining such as forest reserves" (Aryee, Ntibery, & Atorkui, 2003, p. 113). However, since the government of Ghana took ...
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1. Introduction. Searching for, and extraction of minerals in Ghana has been an ancient activity. Undoubtedly, Ghana has a long history of small-scale mining of precious minerals, particularly gold and diamond which dates to pre-colonial times (Aryee et al., 2003).According to the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research …
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Studies of articulations between large- and small-scale mining have overlooked the subterranean dimension of extraction and ignored how mining companies and artisanal miners cohabit in places with long histories of small-scale mining and are affected ... Drawing on a study of two gold concessions in Ghana, this article focuses on three …
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The federal government, via the Minerals Commission, thus controls mineral access and concession licensing. Ghana's small-scale mining sector underwent major transformations in the last three decades, including neoliberal restructuring, legal formalization and, most recently, prolific expansion.
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Overview of Gold Mining Activities in Ghana. Ghana's rich gold mines and other mineral fields have attracted some leading mining companies in the world into the country, which has resulted in tremendous growth in the country's mining sector for the past few years [].In Ghana, gold mining activities are in two main forms, which are …
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The minister singled-out the invasion of illegal miners (galamsey) on the concessions of legal large-scale miners as a major concern and proposed two …
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In Ghana, the link between gold mining and urban growth, livelihoods, poverty and wealth was examined in three gold mining towns with differing …
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Luning and Pijpers (Reference Luning and Pijpers 2017) give a valuable analysis of the interplay between politics and geology in forms of cohabitation between international mining companies and small-scale mining operators on large-scale concessions, which reveals much about the ways in which existing power relations are challenged.'In-depth …
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large-scale gold mining on agriculture in Ghana. Method: The study was a desk review of secondary data including peer-reviewed journals, e- books, conference proceedings, multinational company ...
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It is on this foregoing background that Ghana's Parliament in November 2020 ratified a 15-year mining lease agreement with Electrochem Ghana Limited (EGL) for a large-scale commercial salt mining project on the Songhor Lagoon. EGL belongs to the McDan Group of Companies, a freight transport company in Ghana.
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The recent escalation of illegal mining activity on the company's concession, which, as indicated, is attributable to a range of factors, is a concern for both the government and the company. ... Growing attention paid to the environmental impacts associated with informal artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in Ghana has sparked …
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Large-scale mining, also known as legal mining, ... Almost 31,237 square kilometers of Ghana's land area (13.1%) is under concession to mining companies.44 The total agricultural land lost due to large-scale gold mining in the Tarkwa, Bogoso/Prestea and Damang concessions is 4,935 hectares, representing 25.5% of Bogoso/Prestea …
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In Ghana, the link between gold mining and urban growth, livelihoods, poverty and wealth was examined in three gold mining towns with differing characteristics: Obuasi was selected to represent old mining urban …
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