Using the case of Ghana, where conflicts and trade-offs between mining and forests proliferate, an interdisciplinary and exploratory approach is taken to investigate the impact of mining on forest ...

ASM is the supplier of minerals for the Jewelry Industry in Ghana. Serve as Precursors to Large Scale Exploration Companies (Pathfinders) Contribution towards Community Development through Implementation of CSR projects. ASM Contributed 43% (2.1 million oz) of total gold production in 2018, 36% in 2019, 30% in 2020 and.

This paper examines the dynamics of the ongoing conflict in Prestea, Ghana, where indigenous galamsey mining groups are operating illegally on a concession awarded to Bogoso Gold Limited (BGL), property of the Canadian-listed multinational Gold Star Resources. Despite being issued firm orders by the authorities to abandon their …

traditional leaders have insisted that mining companies should develop the mining areas and provide alternative means of livelihoods. The government of Ghana in 1993 established the

The relevance of this case is that Ghana's Prestea mining community is noted for violent confrontations with GSR over land use and environmental pollution. It is …

As of November 2021 the government had approved five community mining schemes with a combined 20 concessions that had the potential to support the livelihood of 26,300 …

The environment, its natural resources and development capacity remains a contentious element in the development process of human society. In Ghana, similarly as Africa and other developing countries, there is a huge dependence of environmental resources for economic growth and development. Mining gold resources is directly …

In 1993 the government of Ghana established the Minerals Development Fund to, among other things, fund and implement development projects in communities affected by mining. The aim was also to ...

Ghana has abundant mineral reserves in many of its regions, and gold mining remains one of the country's main sources of revenue. Given Ghana's current position in the global gold market, this review provides insight into the ASGM sector to give an understanding of the pertinent issues in the sector and its role in the socio-economic …

Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective. Uwafiokun Idemudia, Corresponding Author. Uwafiokun Idemudia ... meet their responsibility to respect human rights and ensure that environmental rights of community members in mining areas are not violated. By privileging community voices, …

Ghana, located in the heart of West Africa with a population of 30.8 million people in 2021,1 has seen rapid economic growth over the past two decades, it significant contriutions rom ot reneale and nonreneale natural resources. and resources including agricultural lands orests natural aitats and minerals are critical or anas grot Togeter ...

The concept of conflict diamonds or "blood diamonds" emerged in the late 1990s when it became evident that several violent civil wars in Africa were connected to mining and trading of rough diamonds. In 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey was asked by the U.S. Department of State to help address illegal diamond mining in Africa.

Prestea is an old mining town. in the Western Region of the south-western part of Ghana. It is. about 50 km north of the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Prestea is the. forty-sixth most populous town ...

Atewa Forest Reserve in the Eastern Region of Ghana represents one of only two reserves with upland evergreen forests in Ghana but is also a possible site for bauxite mining. The Government of Ghana deployed an infrastructure in anticipation for a refined bauxite agreement with China. Ghana's Government seeks to develop an …

It is also implementing the Ghana Forest Investment Programme and Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small-scale Mining Project to reclaim between 100 and 1,500 hectares of mined areas. Mr Allotey said Ghana was already benefiting from some of the afforestation and re-afforestation programmes and cited the Ghana Cocoa Forest …

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Mining Policy, Water Conflicts and Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana : Perspectives from the Wassa West District

The deal has led to a number of protests against bauxite mining in Ghana, particularly at one potential site: The Atewa Forest Reserve. ... The Accra-based …

Challenges of Land Acquisition in the Mining Communities of Tarkwa, Ghana. Edward Attimo Amihyiah KWESI, Peter Ekow BAFFOE and Kwame TENADU, Ghana. Key …

History of Mining in Ghana. There is evidence of gold extraction activities in Ghana as far back as the 7th and 8th centuries A.D., as gold deposits attracted Arab traders into the country.7 These activities were strategically located along rivers where sediments believed to contain deposits of gold were washed constantly to separate the …

A new programme led by the UK Home Office to reduce illegal gold mining in Ghana. Conflict, Stability and Security Fund: projects include those that reduce state threats, tackle illegal wildlife ...

Abstract This paper critiques the approach being taken in Ghana to implement Alternative Livelihood (AL) projects in mining communities. The rapid insurgence of illegal artisanal gold mining has forced policymakers to think more creatively about ways in which to deal with mounting unemployment in the country's rural areas. …

PDF | On Jan 1, 2005, Nandita Singh published Mining Policy, Water Conflicts and Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana: Perspectives from the Wassa West District | Find, read and cite all the ...

The Ahafo gold mine, Newmont's first mine in Ghana, has been implicated in human rights abuses and irresponsible practices since before it began operating in 2006. The mine is located in a farming region northwest of the country's capital Accra and has caused major displacement and social impacts. In October, 2009, a cyanide spill …

The purpose of the study is to highlight the problems encountered by displaced people living in mining communities in Ghana where foreign mining companies, including Canadian …

The underlying issue associated with conflicts in mining communities focuses on the imbalance between the impacts of mining and its benefits. 24 One end of the spectrum depicts the harmful effects of the mining experience in the mining communities. For example, Newmont's official in Peru stated, "we have the concession, …

Abstract. Land use conflicts are becoming increasingly apparent from local to global scales. Surface gold mining is an extreme source of such a conflict, but mining impacts on local livelihoods often remain unclear. Our goal here was to assess land cover change due to gold surface mining in Western Ghana, one of the world's leading gold ...

Mining, Environment and Community Conflicts: A Study of Company-Community Conflicts over Gold Mining in the Obuasi Municipality of Ghana Seth Opoku Mensah1, …

Illegal small-scale mining and processing activities (ASM) have led to a vast area of degraded, contaminated, and abandoned local-community lands, posing a major environmental concern in many ...

Climate Impacts and Other Environmental Vulnerabilities. Ghana is highly vulnerable to climate impacts. The country's average temperature has increased by around 1 degree Celsius during the last six decades (World Bank 2022), and temperatures are predicted to rise between 1.7 to 3.7 degrees Celsius by 2080 (GIZ 2019).

In Ghana, a significant cause of conflict is the failure of the sector's growth to adequately trickle down and improve the living conditions and overall development of the indigenes …