Chinese And Small Scale Mining In Ghana
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- Chinese And Small Scale Mining In Ghana
This article investigates factors that attract Chinese migrants into illegal small-scale mining in Ghana, their role in the supply chain, and the impact of their involvement. This is accomplished via mixed qualitative techniques involving interviews with illegal small-scale Chinese and Ghanaian miners, and relevant Ghanaian stakeholders.
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Although the majority of Chinese interests in African mining is state sponsored, the Ghana case demonstrates private Chinese agency that is mostly attracted to illegal small-scale mining in Ghana due to push factors in the homeland and …
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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. This, we suggest, creates parallel operations of formal and informal systems that promote di erent
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Keywords: artisanal and small-scale mining; Ghana; Chinese miners; the state and corruption; neopatrimonialism Introduction The global rush to grab mineral resources took an unusual turn in Ghana
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price led several foreigners, the Chinese in particular numbering about 50,000 troops into Ghana to mine gold (Crawford et al., 2016; Boafo et al., 2019). Though foreigners are outlawed from engaging in artisanal and small-scale mining, the Chinese dominated the illegal mining landscape of …
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Large scale mining in Ghana: A review of the implications on the host communities ... small-scale gold mining in Ghana - Part 1: Human health . review. International Journan o f Environmental ...
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The role of the state in prioritizing large-scale over small-scale mining also comes into focus here. Much of the legislation on mining privileges large-scale mining, especially foreign companies, over local artisanal mining. The small-scale mining sector has faced decades of financial and technological neglect by the state.
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SSM of gold in Ghana is a pre historic activity which can be traced to the 5th Century Discouraged in the colonial era, till 1989 This led to Secret Activities and Smuggling of Proceeds outside the country In 1989 –SSM Activities were mainstreamed through promulgation of the Small Scale Gold Mining Law, PNDCL 218 (1989) In 2006, SSM regime was integrated into the new …
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This article investigates factors that attract Chinese migrants into illegal small-scale mining in Ghana, their role in the supply chain, and the impact of their involvement. This is accomplished via mixed qualitative techniques …
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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) plays a significant socio-economic role in the alleviation of poverty. In Ghana, the increase in and persistence of illegal ASM (galamsey) can be explained by unemployment, cumbersome and costly registration, lack of land, corruption and Chinese engagement.Traditionally, Ghanaian governments have neglected to address ASM activities …
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must be at least 18 years old. The duration of a small-scale mining license is five years and renewable upon satisfactory performance during the first term (Minerals Commission 2015). Note that artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is subsumed under small-scale mining (SSM). Therefore, even though Act 703 refers to small-
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1. Introduction. Since the early 2000s, about 50,000 Chinese gold miners have migrated to Ghana to engage in small-scale mining (locally known as galamsey), defined as the exploitation of mineral deposits through the use of rudimentary equipment and involving low levels of production with minimal capital investment, and by law reserved for only Ghanaians [1,2,3,4,5,6,7].
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Although the majority of Chinese interests in African mining is state sponsored, the Ghana case demonstrates private Chinese agency that is mostly attracted to illegal small‐scale mining in ...
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Small-scale mining contributes about 30% of Ghana's total gold output and provides livelihoods for many people. This study examines the impact of Chinese involvement in the sector, much …
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Keywords: Artisanal and small-scale mining; Ghana; Chinese miners; the state and corruption; neopatrimonialism 1. Introduction The global rush to grab mineral resources took an unusual turn in Ghana recently in the informal gold mining sector. With the hike in gold prices from 2008 onwards, a large influx of
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ABSTRACT As gold prices soared from 2008 onwards, tens of thousands of foreign miners, especially from China, entered the small-scale mining sector in Ghana, despite it being 'reserved for Ghanaian citizens' by law. A free-for-all ensued in which Ghanaian and Chinese miners engaged in both contestation and collaboration over access to gold, a situation …
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Many turn to illegal gold-mining syndicates that offer up to 2,000 cedis ($125) a week. According to Ghana's mining sector regulator, small-scale operations produced 1.2 …
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As gold prices soared from 2008 onwards, tens of thousands of foreign miners, especially from China, entered the small-scale mining sector in Ghana, despite it being 'reserved for Ghanaian ...
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This article investigates factors that attract Chinese migrants into illegal small-scale mining in Ghana, their role in the supply chain, and the impact of their involvement. This is accomplished via mixed qualitative techniques involving interviews with illegal small-scale Chinese and Ghanaian miners, and relevant Ghanaian stakeholders.
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Using an institutional analytical framework, we argue that the increasing involvement of the Chinese in small-scale mining in Ghana is an …
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Since 2009, with the involvement of Chinese miners in gold mining, which peaked in 2013, small-scale mining in Ghana has become highly mechanized, involving the use of excavators, wash …
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The Small-Scale Mining Law of 1989 (PNDCL 218) as amended by the Minerals and Mining Act of 2006 (Act 703) defined small-scale mining as an indigenous enterprise that requires certification of Ghanaians from the Minerals Commission to operate (Akabzaa and Darimani, 2001; Ofosu-Mensah, 2011). It indicated that small-scale mining is exclusively ...
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for the prevalence of illegal Chinese small-scale mining in Ghana, it makes the case of "African Agency" by highlighting the role of Ghanaian civil society in tackling the phenomenon. The rest ...
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With the hike in gold prices from 2008 onwards, a large influx of foreign miners, especially irregular migrants from China, entered into the artisanal and small-scale mining sector (ASM), …
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Sustainability. 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 …
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That notwithstanding, the boom of gold mining in Southern Ghana in the last 20 years has diverted internal migration destinations for Northern women with many women moving into informal artisanal and small-scale mining, locally called galamsey. 1 As argued in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) literature, migration to ASM communities is ...
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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 ...
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during this time. This municipality was chosen as it is in the heartland of the main alluvial gold mining area in southern Ghana, and a centre of Chinese involvement in small-scale mining. Data collection methods involved: semi-structured interviews with government officials at …
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Illicit Chinese small-scale mining in Ghana: beyond institutional weakness? Sustainability (Switzerland), 11 (21) (2019), pp. 1-18, 10.3390/su11215943. ... Gender equality in artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana: assessing progress towards SDG 5 using salience and institutional analysis and design. Environ. Sci.
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Chinese Corporate Exploitation in Small-Scale Mining Gordon Crawford, Coleman Agyeyomah, and Atinga Mba IntroductIon This chapter investigates a resource conflict that emerged in a far corner of Ghana between a Chinese gold mining company operating in the arti-sanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector and a local opposition group.
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Over a century, mining has been the cornerstone for the government's revenue and local development and has occurred in two main forms—large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining. Multinational corporations usually own the large-scale mines, which operate under a formal regulatory regime that demands responsible mining and the ...
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Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining: Chinese miners and the state in Ghana. Gordon Crawford Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, ... As gold prices soared from 2008 onwards, tens of thousands of foreign miners, especially from China, entered the small-scale mining sector in Ghana, despite ...
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A recent study on the spatial distribution of mining operations in Ghana shows that the Western Region has the largest concentration of the different forms of mining activities in Ghana: large-scale mining, licensed and illegal small-scale mining (Owusu-Nimo et al., 2018). Moreover, while agriculture remains the primary source of income for ...
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This paper brings some clarity to the debate on Chinese participation in Ghana's artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of Chinese nationals have migrated to rural Ghana, where they have proceeded to extract gold, for the most part undeterred, illicitly.
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Searching for, and extraction of minerals in Ghana has been an ancient activity. Undoubtedly, Ghana has a long history of small-scale mining of precious minerals, particularly gold and diamond which dates to pre-colonial times (Aryee et al., 2003).According to the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) (2017), gold was mined several years …
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As gold prices soared from 2008 onwards, tens of thousands of foreign miners, especially from China, entered the small-scale mining sector in Ghana, despite it being 'reserved for Ghanaian ...
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