A Chinese gold mining company operating in Ghana has disclosed that it is finalising negotiations with the government for the construction of an airport in the Upper East Region. Cardinal Namdini Mining Ltd had wanted an airstrip for its exclusive use in the Talensi District, where gold production is due in Q4 2024.

A small-scale miner may purchase from an authorized mercury dealer the quantities of mercury that may be reasonably necessary for the mining operations of the small scale miner. Regulation 476—Machinery for small scale mining. Regulation 287 to 468 applies with the necessary modifications to machinery used in small scale mining operations.

This chapter investigates the activities of a Chinese mining company in the small-scale gold mining sector in a corner of Ghana. It questions the legality of its operations, given that small-scale mining is by law 'reserved for Ghanaians', and argues that bribery combined with corruption amongst state officials has enabled the company …

The informal character of Ghana's gold mining economy has been heavily overlooked in discussions on the growing population of Chinese galamsey operators. 2.2. Accounting for the Chinese 'Presence' in sub-Saharan Africa. The local press has become the primary source of information about the growing Chinese presence in Ghana's …

In addition to mining issues in Nigeria and Namibia, the Democratic Republic of Congo has banned six Chinese businesses operating in South Kivu for illegally extracting gold and other minerals. Before this, according to the ET, 33 Chinese nationals were detained in Ghana in 2019 for engaging in illegal gold mining activities.

American company operating in Ghana. Golden Sunshine Mining Company Ltd., a large-scale Chinese gold mining company, is a relatively young company, and is just starting to venture into the world of corporate social responsibility. It relies on local expertise in its engagement with the local community, and so far it has had a limited impact on ...

Ghana has arrested 124 Chinese for illegal mining in the largest such crackdown yet, highlighting China's difficulties in limiting friction over its growing …

Thus, demographic challenges are motivating factors for the over 50,000 irregular Chinese migrants who entered Ghana in 2000-13 to engage in illegal gold mining. They are tagged as the "Shanglin ...

Here are some of the largest Chinese mining companies. ... The net cash generated from operating activities was RMB 29.2 billion, a 2.7% increase. As of March 31, 2023, the total assets of the ...

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 …

Data from the Ghana Immigration Service reveals that a total of 1641 Chinese nationals engaged in illegal mining were repatriated from Ghana between 2009 …

Tensions escalated in the Gbane community of the Talensi district of the Upper East Region as illegal miners vehemently resisted attempts by the Upper East Regional Security Council and the Minerals Commission to seal off the mining pits they were operating. The confrontation, which unfolded in the early hours of Friday, March …

A high-level delegation from Ghana is attending the 25th China Mining Conference and Exhibition from 26th to 28th October 2023 in Tianjin, China, to attract investment in the country's mining industry. The delegation is led by Ghana's Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, A. Jinapor, and includes officials from the government and private …

Several Chinese miners were arrested in the far Eastern Ituri province where it is believed that an unknown number of Chinese migrants and companies are …

A high-level delegation from Ghana is attending the 25th China Mining Conference and Exhibition from 26th to 28th October 2023 in Tianjin, China, to attract investment in the country's mining industry. ... Ahead of the conference, the sector Minister met with selected Chinese mining companies already operating in Ghana, such as …

Given the growing environmental concerns and the fact that the mining codes officially reserve ASM as a mining subsector for Ghanaians (Act 703, 2006, Sec. …

1. Introduction. Over the past decade, Ghana's artisanal and small-scale mining 1 sector has attracted a wave of Chinese migrants (Antwi-Boateng and Akudugu, 2020; Boafo et al., 2019; Hilson et al., 2014).Between 2008 and 2016, over 50,000 Chinese gold seekers migrated to rural Ghana to engage in illegal ASM, aided at various levels, …

Ghana's cocoa regulator COCOBOD told Reuters in September that around 150,000 metric tons of cocoa was lost due to smuggling and illegal gold mining, locally known as galamsey, on farmlands in the ...

the Chinese in small-scale mining in Ghana is an expression of a bigger and deep-seated problem characterized largely by uncoordinated interactions between key state and customary institutions.

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For instance, the global value chain in the IT/telecom sector is controlled by a relatively small number of large international businesses. However, Chinese companies operating in the mining and construction industries are less likely to be key players in the global value chain already dominated by large international corporations (Cooke, 2014).

The court in the capital Accra sentenced Aisha Huang to four and a half years imprisonment and a fine of 48,000 Ghanaian cedis ($4,000) for running an illegal mining operation, Huang's lawyer Hope ...

Over the past year, MINING has kept a close eye on illegal Chinese gold mining in Ghana. At its peak, an estimated 50,000 Chinese miners were operating illegally in the country. Ghanaian ...

Ghana. At the height of Chinese involvement in 2012 and 2013, media reports from China stated that almost 50,000 Chinese nationals had migrated to Ghana for purposes of small-scale gold mining 4. The other form made use of …

The operations of the Shaanxi Mining Company in the Talensi District is a formidable testament to the successful mechanization of small-scale mining in Ghana. The Shaanxi Mining Company, like many other Chinese-backed mining entities, has successfully exploited a loophole in Ghana's Mining Act, which initially permitted foreigners to …

By examining and juxtaposing grassroots perspectives vis-à-vis the mining policy regime, the author argues that successful illegal Chinese ASM in Ghana is a form …

Ghana's High Court has ordered an interlocutory injunction blocking the Chinese-state-linked miner Earl International, formerly known as Shaanxi, from mining a 10-hectare area in eastern Ghana ...

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In a follow up study in 2014, we revisited the area and observed an increase in the number of companies, many of them operated by Chinese miners who had moved from Ghana, where, at the time, the ...