the various galamsey mining communities. Figure 1: Causes of Galamsey in the Amenfi West District Source: Authors survey results. Unemployment is observed as the most critical cause of galamsey operation. 94.5% of the respondents indicated that unavailability of jobs is the reasongalamsey remains attractive.

The research showed that galamsey is seen as a source of livelihood for the majority of the communities and the operators. With close to one million participants, this constitutes about 10% of the workforce of the country. The communities visited all affirmed the benefits of galamsey and the development potential of the business.

The surge of illegal mining commonly referred to as 'galamsey' has been a long-term worry to the people and political leaders of Ghana. The aftermath of this …

A l'approche du premier anniversaire de "l'embargo" sur l'artisanat minier au Ghana mis en œuvre par John Peter Amewu, le ministre des territoires et des ressources naturelles, les artisans multiplient les prises de position contre la mesure, espérant faire plier le gouvernement.Les creuseurs, appelés communément "galamsey" au Ghana, …

This paper focuses on the outbreak of illegal mining (galamsey) operations in Ghana in recent times claiming that the outbreak is accompanied by massive environmental …

the galamsey menace It is estimated that 80 to 100 million people worldwide are currently engaged in artisanal or small scale mining or as we know here as galamsey. Galamsey or artisanal mining involves rudimentary techniques of mineral extraction, highly manual processes, hazardous working conditions and low levels of environmental and …

En examinant les dernières mesures de l'Etat ghanéen pour régler la question de l'exploitation minière illégale, on constate que la répression occupe encore une place importante dans la stratégie mise en œuvre. Début janvier 2022 encore, le gouvernement annonçait que 200 gardes fluviaux seraient formés et déployés durant l ...

Galamsey, which is locally known in Ghana as the illegal mining activity or mechanism to extract gold and other mineral resources is on the rise. People who engage in such act are known to be independent workers from the known commercial mining companies in the country; hence making their ways illegal. Under the current Ghana law, …

The galamsey operators themselves are prone to various problems and dangers such as pit collapse and landslides. On Wednesday, November 11, 2009 an estimated 30 illegal miners (Galamseyers) lost their lives as a result of a landslide at Dopaose in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region – 14 out of the 18 retrieved corpses were ...

Chapitre III : le secteur minier industriel de la RCA 24 1. Perspectives et problèmes liés au futur secteur minier industriel de la RCA 24 2. AXMIN 25 3. Autres sociétés détenant des permis d'exploration et d'exploitation dans le pays 27 Chapitre IV : conséquences socio-économiques et environnementales

Aubynn defines galamsey as the practice of "discretely gathering minerals found just below the soil surface and selling them in contravention to state laws" (Aubynn 2009). Aubynn's …

Effects of galamsey on health I wish in a nutshell to state that health is an indispensable asset for human of life and development. In observing the important …

Galamsey as is used to call in Ghana has resulted in serious degradation of vegetation, lands and pollute major water bodies in recent years and this unwelcomed issue of land and water pollution in Ghana is of great concern due to the alarming higher rate at which our beloved arable lands for farming and drinking water for communities around …

Understanding Discourse on the Galamseyer in Ghana: A Quantitative Content Frame Analysis Description

In Ghana, we call it "Galamsey", acknowledged to have been originated from the expression "gather them and sell" as far back in the colonial epoch (Owusu Nimo et al. 2018). Over the years, its undulating consequence on the Ghanaian economy has been so awful warranting calls for a nationwide schema to war it in recent times.

Gold mining has been the backbone of Ghana's development since pre-colonial times. It has been essential in revenue mobilisation and the provision of employment to many people. However, in recent times the sector has received severe public backlash due to its inability to effect appropriate socioeconomic change; and the …

Nationally, galamsey represents huge sums in lost revenue and exports. In 2016, the Ghanaian government lost an estimated $2.3 billion in fiscal revenues through illegal mining. In comparison, the country's top three major foreign companies collectively produce more than a third of Ghana's gold production and contribute to above 50% of ...

Aubynn defines galamsey as the practice of "discretely gathering minerals found just below the soil surface and selling them in contravention to state laws" (Aubynn 2009). Aubynn's definition of galamsey also highlights the roots of the term, coined during colonial times by those who observed how gold was gathered and sold in the Gold Coast.

1. Introduction. Mantey et al., defines "galamsey" as the practice of illicitly mining and/or extracting gold found either at or below soil and water surface in Ghana. It is an illegal or unregulated form of artisanal small scale gold mining (ASM) and could either be in a stand-alone mining mode, a stand-alone processing or gold extraction mode or in a …

Mines (GCM) report, illegal mining activities (galamsey) have been increasing with an estimated number between 300,000 and 500,000 artisan miners comprising one of the …

The Seventh-day Adventists (SDA) has supported a recent call by religious leaders for a ban on small scale mining as a way of dealing with the illegal ones (Galamsey) among them. The church also demanded that the galamseyers should be forced to work to reclaim the lands, water bodies and forest reserves that have been destroyed by their …

Place of Birth: N/A. A galamsey, derived from the phrase "gather them and sell", is a local Ghanaian term that means illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana. Such workers are known as galamseyers ...

It is the undisputed mining hub of West Africa, and is dominated by two main gold mining sectors: the large scale mining sector (LSM) and small-scale or artisanal …

the galamsey menace in Ghana, and suggests that any anti-galamsey crusade that fails to tackle the political drivers of the problem is unlikely to succeed. Three key political issues are especially crucial in this regard: the nature of electioneering campaigns, the network of powerful actors engaged in this phenomenon and the

Most of the gold obtained through galamsey is exported illegally. Nobody knows when exactly galamsey started in Ghana but the fact is it started in the then Gold Coast a very long time ago. Indeed it predates 1471 when the first Europeans, the Portuguese set foot on our land at Elmina. When they arrived here due to the language …

Such workers are known as galamseyers or orpailleurs in neighboring Francophone nations. Galamseyers are people who perform illegal gold mining independent of mining …

Further into the galamsey site at Adumanu, past a makeshift market and through a forest, the landscape is pockmarked with …

Galamsey local parlance used to describe small scale illegal mining in Ghana has been a national headache for Ghana since the 1970s and the reasons are not …

The threat seemed to work. By the end of the three weeks, over 500 excavators used in informal artisanal gold mining – known locally as "galamsey" – had reportedly been voluntarily removed from mining sites. This ultimatum was part of President Nana Akufo-Addo's promise to eradicate the problem of galamsey "once and for all".

Ghana's galamsey crisis has yet to affect global chocolate prices in a noticeable way, but the future implications may be seen in the current reality of Kwaku Asare's cocoa farm. His 14 acres ...