More recently, in August 2016, the government expelled about 30 illegal miners, the majority of them Chinese. Ghana relies on China for billions of dollars in loans and commerce, as the country is ...
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Hundreds of thousands, including many from China, are engaged in illegal artisanal mining. How can the government stop it? At the start of April, Ghana's government issued a three-week ultimatum to …
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Sun told Shaanxi the Chinese government would lobby for greater mining access for Chinese companies in Ghana and "create a favourable investment environment for legally operating Chinese-funded ...
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92. The Ghanaian gold rush is heating up, with Chinese mining giants emerging as potential frontrunners in the race to acquire Newmont Corporation's Akyem gold mine.
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This study examined the impact of Chinese involvement in small-scale gold mining in Ghana. The Chinese presence introduced irrevocable changes, notably the use of heavy machinery and new technology, such that the sector will never be the same again. The intensification of small-scale gold mining through
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Two Ghanaian journalists, Okatakyie Afrifa-Mensah and Kwame Appiah Kubi, along with other team members, arrested three Chinese nationals who were allegedly …
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In Manso Akropong, the intensification of mining backed by Ghanaian–Chinese collaborations has led to the environmental destruction, creating …
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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 …
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The global rush to grab resources took an unexpected turn in Ghana recently. With the hike in gold prices from 2008 onwards, a large influx of foreign miners, especially from China, entered into the artisanal and small-scale mining sector (ASM), despite it being 'reserved for Ghanaian citizens' by law.
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Wassa Akropong is a farming community in the Western North region of Ghana that has become a hotspot for illegal mining by Chinese nationals. The article …
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Mechanized gold mining by Chinese miners is destroying forests, farms and waterways in northern and eastern Ghana. The practice is illegal, unregulated and polluting, and it undermines the livelihoods of …
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By 2014, only Chinese miners remained,2 and an estimated 50,000 Chinese citizens were mining gold in Ghana (Hilson and Hilson, 2015; Hilson et al., 2014). One official from the Minerals Commission,3 the government agency responsible for promoting and regulating the minerals sector, guessed that Chinese nationals held 70 per cent of small-scale ...
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State-owned Shandong Gold Mining last year won a nine-month bidding war for Ghana gold mine developer Cardinal Resources, outbidding Russia's Nordgold with a A$1.075 per share all-cash takeover ...
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While the engagement of Chinese migrants in small-scale mining in Ghana has gained traction in scholarship, the extant literature pays little attention to how the relationship between the so-called formal …
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DOI: 10.1016/J.JRURSTUD.2014.03.001 Corpus ID: 154273668; Chinese Participation in Ghana's Informal Gold Mining Economy: Drivers, Implications and Clarifications @article{Hilson2014ChinesePI, title={Chinese Participation in Ghana's Informal Gold Mining Economy: Drivers, Implications and Clarifications}, author={Gavin Hilson and …
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Illegal gold mining by Chinese nationals using heavy machinery has fueled resentment and hostility amongst local communities in Ghana.
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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 ...
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While the engagement of Chinese migrants in small-scale mining in Ghana has gained traction in scholarship, the extant literature pays little attention to how the relationship between the so-called formal institutions (e.g., the Minerals Commission and Ministry of Land and Natural Resources) and informal institutions (e.g., the …
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Section snippets 'Informalized' spaces, Chinese investment and the re-shaping of rural sub-Saharan Africa. The questions which have come to dominate recent public discussions and policy dialogue on Chinese participation in Ghana's informal gold mining economy are little different to those which underpin much larger debates about …
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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 ...
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Galamsey is illegal artisanal gold mining that involves many Chinese actors and causes environmental, social and economic …
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Africa's top gold producer Ghana will commission its first large-scale greenfield mine in more than a decade in November, with expected annual production of more than 350,000 ounces, the head of ...
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Cassius chief executive James Arkoudis has vowed the company will get justice for its shareholders in its $395 million dispute with a Chinese state-linked mine and the Ghanaian government.
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Su Zhenyu, secretary general of the Chinese Mining Association in Ghana, said 24 tons of gold are transported to China from Chinese-run mines in Ghana each year, but many residents had heard ...
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This paper examined some local pull factors accounting for the proliferation of Chinese miners in Ghana's artisanal and small-scale gold mining, particularly the …
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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 4½ years in prison and …
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Ghana is currently Africa's largest gold producer, with total gold production of almost 4.8 million ounces in 2018, surpassing South Africa's total of 4.2 million ounces for the first time (Whitehouse the Africa Report 2019).While large-scale production has only increased modestly over the past decade, it is expansion in ASGM that has increased …
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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 4½ years in prison and levied a $4,000 fine for running an illegal mining operation.
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