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.
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→ WhatsApp: +86 18221755073UNDOUBTEDLY, Northern Ghana is becoming a hub of mining activities with the discovery of mineral resources, particularly gold deposits in large quantities in many communities. However, the struggle for this natural …
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→ WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Sustainability. 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 Commission and Ministry of Land and Natural Resources) and informal institutions (e.g., the chieftaincy and customary land …
→ WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Mineral mining activities in Africa have long been associated with a myriad of socio-environmental impacts and conflicts, posing significant challenges to sustainable development and environmental ...
→ WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Discourses on "illegal" or informal small‐scale mining (galamsey) have presented it largely as a menace. Using Ghana as the focus of our study, we present a counter‐narrative to the ...
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→ WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The clamp down on surface mining popularly known as 'galamsey' has put many people out of jobs. 2. State of human rights in mining communities in Ghana – The CHRAJ Report In 2006, following several complaints of human rights violations in some mining communities in Ghana, the CHRAJ organized public hearings in
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→ WhatsApp: +86 18221755073As result, a lot of earlier works have been done for managing large-scale mineral exploration and mining-induced land use conflicts in the historical southwestern mining areas of Ghana. Examples include the works of Hilson (2002a) ; Hilson (2002c) ; Hilson (2012) ; Hilson and Clifford (2010) ; Patel et al. (2016) .
→ WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The construction of a dam on the Black Volta River at Bui in Ghana to generate about 400 megawatts of hydroelectric power engendered conflict between three project-affected communities-Bui, Akanyakrom, and Dokokyina (Figure 10.1)- and the Bui Power Authority (BPA), the managers of the dam.
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→ WhatsApp: +86 18221755073This 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 activities, galamsey leaders …
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