Illegal Gold Miners Arrested In Ghana Last Month

A SPOKESMAN for Ghanas immigration service says 161 Chinese citizens who were arrested for illegal gold mining this week will be deported

Apr 23 2019018332But news website Asia by Africa reported last month that 50000 Chinese migrants had poured into Ghana in recent years drawn by the countrys unprotected mineral wealth and skyhigh gold prices Ghanaian President Nana AkufoAddo called illegal mining by Chinese citizens a top concern

Apr 23 2019018332General News of Tuesday 23 April 2019 Source scmpcom 20190423 Dig for gold in Ghana at your own risk Chinese miners warned after arrests

Apr 24 2019018332Ghana concerned that a rush of mainly Chineseled ventures is harming the environment has arrested hundreds of Chinese miners and expelled thousands in the past six years

Feb 20 2019018332But news website Asia by Africa reported last month that 50000 Chinese migrants had poured into Ghana in recent years drawn by the countrys unprotected mineral wealth and skyhigh gold

Ghana concerned that a rush of mainly Chineseled ventures is harming the environment has arrested hundreds of Chinese miners and expelled thousands in the past six years

Ghana cracked down on illegal smallscale gold mining in 2017 after the national water company warned that the chemicals discharged by what is locally known as galamsey could force the country to

Ghana Releases 169 Chinese Illegal Gold Miners 2013617the miners were arrested for overstaying their tourist visas to mine for gold in resourcerich ghana their arrest was a part of a larger crackdown on illegal gold mining by ghanas government Ghana Arrests Chinese Over Illegal Mining China

Ghanaian police have arrested 124 Chinese citizens over suspicions that they are involved in illegal gold mining activities Last month John Dramani Mahama the president of Ghana formed a

Illegal smallscale gold miners in DR Congo such as those who were killed when their makeshift mine collapsed last week are the oftenexploited first link in a supply chain that extends to Dubai

In June 2013 124 Chinese nationals were detained in Ghana for illegally mining gold Unlawful mining of mineral resources continues and is gravely affecting Ghanas economy the president said

Jan 13 2009018332There are growing problems with armed gangs of illegal goldminers operating inside South Africas worldfamous Goldfields mining regions as well as in Ghana The gangs remain below for months

Jan 31 2020018332A 32yearold Burkina Faso illegal gold miner in the Upper West Region Hamidu Hammond sustained some injuries during an arrest by security personnel last Wednesday and is on admission at the Wa

Jun 10 2013018332The most recent wave of arrests targeting illegal Chinese gold miners in Ghana has brought attention to a group of individuals too often overlooked while discussing Chinas involvement in

Jun 17 2019018332The NASA Veteran Cracking Down on Illegal Gold Miners Gold was Ghanas biggest export last year and mines like this are common throughout the

Mar 06 2018018332Illegal gold mining in Ghana further exacerbates a volatile cocoa market In 2014 experts predicted a global cocoa shortage by 2020 However

May 02 2017018332Tensions between Ghana and China have escalated in the past weeks as Africas second largest gold producer announced last month on illegal gold miners Ghana has stepped up the arrest

May 30 2017018332The previous month the New Patriotic Party NPP which came to power in January had launched a fiveyear project to provide illegal miners with alternative livelihoods in the legal mining sector Illegal smallscale mining has long proliferated across Ghana Africas second and the worlds tenth largest gold exporter

POLICE have arrested 21 illegal gold panners who had invaded the pristine mountains of the Chimanimani National Park in Manicaland province Hundreds of illegal gold panners invaded Chimanimani National Park last month on the back of the Covid19 lockdown and worsening economic conditions that the panners gold miners in the area were

Sep 18 2020018332POLICE in Solwezi have arrested 16 illegal miners from Kansashi Mine who were found in possession of 17016 grams of suspected gold concentrate Police spokesperson Esther Katongo stated Thursday that police were tipped by members of the public about alleged illegal activities at a house where four vehicles were intercepted and suspected gold concentrates were

Sep 23 2020018332Thousands of kilometres to the west in Kalimantan Indonesias section of Borneo island police this month arrested 400 gold miners accused of operating illegally in a conservation area a