Ghana will require billions of dollars to restore vast stretches of degraded land and polluted water bodies resulting from ...

Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has bemoaned the low adjudication of mining-related cases in courts, noting that out of 800 cases in courts less than 40 have ...

Mr Joseph Nelson, the Western Regional Minister, has expressed his resolve to take decisive actions to tackle the ...

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In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about a centenary of diamond prospecting and mining ... Taxi. Alluvial diamonds were initially found along the coastal ...

We’re giving them up to two weeks if you are mining within forest reserves and if you don’t want to be on the other side of the law, you have two weeks to vacate or leave those places. The other area ...

The importance given to defence and industry might surpass the need for cleaning water bodies. Listen to Story The EU aims for good ecological status by 2027, but many may miss the target. Only 26.8% ...

eNCA's Bafedile Moerane reports.

local chairman of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners, told Reuters that nine people had been killed and fourteen severely injured in the incident at the Obuasi gold mining site ...

He said the government was committed to curbing the devastating effects of illegal mining (galamsey) and to protect the forests, water bodies and other natural resources, which were affected by the ...

joined a police team investigating allegations of illegal mining at a site in Ghana's northern Ashanti region. Tawiah told CPJ he provided police with a written statement about the assault on ...

The new approach, he said would involve the establishment of artisanal small-scale mining cooperatives, along with the creation of the Ghana Gold Board to regulate the small-scale mining sector. “We ...