· Small-scale mining contributes about 30% of Ghana''s total gold output and provides livelihoods to large numbers of people One aspect of the controversial issue of illegal mining in Ghana is the involvement of foreigners, especially Chinese companies and miners Findings suggest that there are serious negative impacts intensified by the involvement of Chinese …
· The Minerals and Mining Act 2006 (Act 703) [Section 83(a)] states that: "A license for small-scale mining operation shall not be granted to a person unless that person is a citizen of Ghana." The issue of Chinese gold miners in Ghana sparked national tension in 2013 when the London based Guardian Newspaper and the BBC News documented a ...
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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.
Chinese people in Ghana. Migration of Chinese people in Ghana dates back to the 1940s. Originally, most came from Hong Kong; migration from mainland China began only in the 1980s. Although an exact number is not clear, one unsubstantiated speculation is that the Chinese living in Ghana might number to be as extremely high as nearly 700,000 people.
· Ghana''s president, John Dramani Mahama, formed a political committee to crack down on illegal mining last month. More than 50,000 Chinese gold miners have been to Ghana …
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 ...
initial findings, including with Chinese citizens resident in Ghana. The paper proceeds in seven main sections. After this introduction, the second section provides information on small-scale gold mining in Ghana. The third examines the rise of foreign involvement in the sector, especially by irregular Chinese …
· The Chinese county of Shanglin issued a warning yesterday against gold mining in Ghana and said it will help the miners return home by paying …
· Some 50,000 Chinese migrants have flocked to Ghana to stake their claim in the country''s illegal gold mining rush with dire environmental, economic, and social consequences. Three, two, one, breach! Ghanaian soldiers smash down the door to a ramshackle, single-story building in a rural mining community.
· June 10, 2013. Illegal gold mining has emerged as a contentious issue in Ghana. (Reuters) In March 2013, Xi Jinping visited three African countries -- Tanzania, South Africa, and Republic 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 relationship between the so-called formal institutions (e.g., the Minerals …
· More recently, in August 2016, the government expelled about 30 illegal miners, the majority of them Chinese. Ghana relies on China for billions of …
· Mining farms and equipment were burned, and 5,000 Chinese workers were deported. The Ghanaian government claimed that these workers were illegal, under the Small-Scale Gold Mining Act of 1989. One Chinese investor, however, claimed that the Chinese …
Ghana''s push to crack down on illegal gold mining is winning praise from the public but inflaming tensions with China, its biggest trading partner. Beijing is accused by advocacy groups — and ...
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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 …
on Chinese involvement in Ghana''s informal gold mining economy. First, it aims to dispel claims that Chinese migrants have ''taken over'' Ghana''s informal gold mining economy. Their entry into Ghana has been facilitated by partnerships forged with local operators and other nationals, as well as
· 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 …
· Ghana''s Chinese Gold Rush. Over the last decade, thousands of Chinese gold-seekers have streamed into Ghana, falling into conflict with local authorities and rival miners. A gold mining pit in Ghana. (Kwei Quartey) Compared to the West''s neoliberalism, China''s approach to investment in Africa has often been somewhat idealized as more of a ...
· Afua Hirsch reports on Ghana''s gold rush in a film that discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country''s small-scale mining industry.
During the first week of June 2013, the Chinese in Ghana instantly became a hot topic over China''s Internet as 124 Chinese civilians were captured by Ghanaian soldiers for alleged illegal gold mining. As local media reported that Chinese residents were being looted by villagers, disturbing pictures of the situation in Ghana started to spread ...
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 legal provision for foreign companies to act as
· From 2005, large numbers of Chinese miners began to arrive to Ghana, mostly from Shanglin County. Shanglin, whose population is primarily ethnically Zhuang (a minority group), has a long historical tradition of gold mining. Throughout the 1990s, Shanglin residents migrated domestically within China to engage in small-scale mining around the ...
· Australian gold miner Resolute Mining has agreed to sell its Bibiani underground gold mine project in Ghana to China''s Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining Co …
· Shaanxi Mining (Ghana) Limited, Chinese Mining firm has been accused of engaging in illegal mining. The management of the Yenyeya and Pubortaaba Mining Groups, registered Small Scale Mining groups in the Gbane Mining community in the Talensi District of the Upper East raised the accusation and said the firm is illegally mining in their concession.
Sino-Ghana bilateral relations and Chinese migrants'' illegal gold mining in Ghana Emmanuel Debrah & Richard Asante To cite this article: Emmanuel Debrah & Richard Asante (2019) Sino-Ghana bilateral relations and Chinese migrants'' illegal gold mining in Ghana, Asian Journal of Political Science, 27:3, 286-307, DOI: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1669473
· Ghana''s police and military raid dozens of Chinese illegal gold mining in their country. The Chinese communist government has sent thousands of Chinese into ...
Mechanized mining has led to an intensification of gold production from the small-scale sector, which now accounts for a third of all gold production in Ghana, and increased incomes to between US$4,000 and US$6,500 per week for Ghanaian mining kingpins, with nearly five times as much going to their Chinese counterparts who financed and ...
· Ghana Arrests Chinese in Gold Mines. DAKAR, Senegal — The authorities in Ghana have conducted sweeping arrests of Chinese citizens in the nation''s gold-mining …
· The group insists that Chinese nationals are mostly responsible for the challenges in the country''s small-scale mining sector. The fight against illegal mining in Ghana has constantly witnessed the arrest of some Chinese nationals usually …
· A phenomenon of illegal mining as part. of small scale mining has developed in the wake of a growing unemployed youthful population. Even worrying is the influx of Chinese into the illegal mining market in Ghana. They use. bulldozers, excavators, and other unapproved implements in this sector which is reserved for.
