Golden Migrants: The Rise and Impact of Illegal …
Although the majority of Chinese interests in African mining is state sponsored, the Ghana case demonstrates private Chinese agency that is mostly …
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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 …
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By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila. ACCRA (Reuters) – A Ghanaian court has sentenced a Chinese national to prison for illegal gold mining in the West African nation, her lawyer said on Monday, ending a case that started in 2017 and shed light on Chinese involvement in the activity. The court in the capital Accra sentenced Aisha Huang to four …
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The Chinese nationals were picked up at a mining site in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region and handed over to the Ghana Immigration Service. Gold is Ghana's top export, earning the country US$5.93 billion, or about 45 per cent of the West African nation's total exports in 2020, according to the Observatory of Economic ...
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Her arrest and recent sentencing are emblematic of Ghana's serious, ongoing problem with Chinese involvement in illegal artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASM). A Ghanaian court on December 4 sentenced Huang to 4½ years in prison and …
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Abstract. This article examines the participation of some Chinese migrants in illegal gold mining (known as galamsey) in Ghana, and how the Government's policy to address the issue created ...
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On 5 June 2013, 169 Chinese miners were arrested in Ghana's gold-mining Ashanti region. These arrests followed Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama's decision to put an end to illegal mining by foreigners. Illegal mining is the driving factor behind a raft of problems in Ghana: it pits citizens against one another and …
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Small scale mineral prospecting is common in the central and western regions of Ghana, where there are a lot of Gold deposites. To make matters worse, foreign nationals especially from China have …
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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.
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The second defining characteristic of gold mining in Ghana is the sheer extent of corruption amongst Ghanaian state officials, who have indirectly enabled the entry of "illegal" Chinese miners. Even the task forces that were introduced to combat illegal mining ultimately fell prey to the rent-seeking behaviour of state officials.
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A Ghanaian court has sentenced a Chinese national to prison for illegal gold mining in the West African nation, her lawyer said on Monday, ending a case that started in 2017 and shed light on Chinese involvement in the activity. The court in the capital Accra sentenced Aisha Huang to four and a half years imprisonment and a fine of 48,000 …
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In Ghana, illegal miners known as galamseyers are carrying out an increasing share of the country's gold production. In recent years, these miners have been sourcing machinery from China.
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Ghana is the 10th largest gold producer in the world and the second largest in Africa, after South Africa. It produced 4.2m ounces last year, worth $1,668 per ounce. 23% of Ghana's gold exports ...
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A Ghanaian court has sentenced a Chinese national to prison for illegal gold mining in the West African nation, her lawyer said on Monday, ending a case that started in 2017 and shed light on ...
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accra, ghana —. A Ghanaian court has sentenced a Chinese national to prison for illegal gold mining in the West African nation, her attorney said Monday, ending a case that started in 2017 and ...
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However, an estimated $2.3 billion worth of illegally-mined gold left Ghana in 2016. In recent years, Ghana witnessed a surge in illegal mining activities popularly …
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124 Chinese citizens have been arrested in Ghana for illegal gold mining. Chinese miners have moved to the natural resource rich country as China's presence in Africa grows. Locals complain
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This unregulated small-scale and artisanal gold mining is known locally as galamsey, a slang word derived from the Ghanaian words "gather" and "sell.". About one million Ghanaians engage in the practice, supporting about 4.5 million people in the country. Many of the galamseyers live in poverty, and their activities often come at a cost ...
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Recent interest by governmental, non-governmental and civil society organisations in monitoring, tracing, tracking and flushing out illegal mining activities in Ghana has intensified due to the fact that large tracts of arable lands, forests and water resources are destroyed by this group of illegal miners. Yet, the scale of operation, types, …
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6 June 2013. Ghana is one of Africa's biggest gold producers. At least 124 Chinese nationals suspected of illegal gold mining have been detained in Ghana, officials say. Chinese officials said ...
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Findings from qualitative exploratory case studies reveal that illegal Chinese ASM is caused by local grievances and resistance to systemic distributional inequities in …
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Abstract. This short piece argues how Ghana is struggling to strike a balance between maintaining good relations with Beijing and cracking down on illegal Chinese mining operations. Content may be ...
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Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Illegal Chinese gold mining in Amansie West, Ghana - an assessement of its impact and implications" by Jørgen Stangeland Bach. ... Illegal Chinese gold mining in Amansie West, Ghana - an assessement of its impact and implications @inproceedings{Bach2014IllegalCG, title={Illegal Chinese gold mining in …
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As per estimates, over 50,000 Chinese gold miners have been to Ghana since 2005, two-thirds of them from Shanglin, an impoverished county in southern Guangxi province where news of the gold rush ...
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Illegal gold mining in Ghana further exacerbates a volatile cocoa market. In 2014, experts predicted a global cocoa shortage by 2020. However, cocoa production statistics have been …
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The study identified two key related factors that drive illegal mining in Ghana. First, the mines are transient but getting a mining licence is time-consuming. Second, the regulatory framework ...
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Facing mounting tensions, violence, and pollution, Ghana has stepped up the arrest and deportation of those illegal foreign miners in recent years. In June and July 2013 alone more than 4,500 ...
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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, …
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Her arrest and recent sentencing are emblematic of Ghana's serious, ongoing problem with Chinese involvement in illegal artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASM). A Ghanaian court on December 4 sentenced Huang to 4½ years in prison and levied a $4,000 fine for running an illegal mining operation. Authorities told reporters that she will be ...
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Hundreds of thousands, including many from China, are engaged in illegal artisanal mining. How can the government stop it? At the start of April, Ghana's government issued a three-week ultimatum to illegal gold miners operating in the country. They were told that they could either stop their activities or face prosecution. The threat …
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