Ghana's illegal mining continues because the rules …
The study identified two key related factors that drive illegal mining in Ghana. First, the mines are transient but getting a mining license is time-consuming. Second, the regulatory framework ...
Police issues fresh warning against illegal mining
January 16, 2020 Police issues fresh warning against illegal mining Rwanda National Police (RNP) has cautioned the public against illegal mining activities, which continues to be the main source of disasters in …
Ghana's illegal mining continues because the rules and reality are
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 ...
Mining sector | Official Rwanda Export Website
Mining sector. Mining in Rwanda started in the early 1930s and since then the mining sector has undergone wide reforms and is now Rwanda's second-largest export revenue earner in the country. In 2017, the sector generated $373.4 Million of foreign exchange. Rwanda's mineral resources include Cassiterite, Coltan, wolfram, peat (used for ...
Clean energy's dirty secret—human rights abuses in cobalt mining
Siddharth Kara discusses his book, "Cobalt Red," the geopolitical implications for Chinese domination of cobalt mining, what companies should do to address the conditions of the miners and much more.
Rwanda: How Illegal Miners Vandalised Rwf2 Billion Water …
In June 2023, The Rwanda Mines, Petroleum, and Gas Board (RMB) issued an order for the immediate closure of 89 illegal mines across the nation, prompted by a series of illicit …
The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines
When the country's mining industry collapsed, a criminal economy grew in its place, with thousands of men climbing into some of the deepest shafts in the world, searching for leftover gold. By ...
Mechanization of illegal gold mining threatens Ghana's forests
Illegal mining, or galamsey, definitely leads to the destruction of forest areas. Once degraded, these forests can no longer store carbon dioxide. If illegal mining continues at this pace, the ...
Demystifying the Mining Sector in Rwanda
Ongoing explorations of minerals conducted by the Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board have revealed that Rwanda is endowed with natural resources. Over 100 licensed miners own concessions …
Environmental Impacts Analysis of Mining on the …
Vol. 9, No. 2, 2020, pp. 56-69. doi: 10.11648/j.jenr.20200902.12. Received: March 10, 2020; Accepted: April 1, 2020; Published: May 14, 2020. Abstract: Mineral exploitation contributes significantly to economic growth and development in most world economies. However, from the detection of minerals to their exploitation, there are a number of ...
Illicit Mining: Threats to U.S. National Security and International
Mining in violation of the laws of the nation in which the activity occurs often takes place in remote areas, and is difficult to police, which leaves opportunities for organized criminal groups to carry out this activity. Transnational criminal organizations, including drug trafficking organizations, and insurgent groups use gold, mostly mined …
REPUBLIC OF RWANDA Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and …
Rwanda's mining sector, which also includes quarrying operations, employs 57,379 workers, of whom only 11.4% are women, while the vast majority (88.6%) are men, according to figures published in March 2021 by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR). As far as women ownership of mining and quarrying
NGORORERO: Residents urged to fight illegal mining
Rwanda National Police (RNP) has lauded the role of Ngororero residents in fighting illegal mining activities and related trade. Residents were further called upon to strengthen the community policing partnership to fight these unlawful practices, which are still common in some parts of the district.
ILLEGAL MINING: Communities threatened by devastating effects
April 6, 2023. Some illegal miners at work. When President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo redirected national focus towards the canker by making a bold pledge to tackle illegal mining, popularly called galamsey, head-on, many thought a time had come to curb the menace. But not much has changed.
The Dangerous Effects of Illegal Mining | Greentumble
Destructive cases of illegal mining across the world. In South America, the $2.4 billion illegal gold mining industry has been destroying the Amazon and costing dozens of lives. In Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, illegal gold mining operations by private companies have devastated local communities.
What is Coltan? 6 Facts You Should Know
"Rwanda is the preferred route for the illicit trade in these minerals, primarily coltan," according to a recent investigative journalism article published by the Pulitzer Center. "Unlike the ...
Countering Tax Avoidance in Sub-Saharan Africa's Mining Sector
To address this, 136 countries, including 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, agreed last month to a minimum effective corporate tax rate of 15 percent starting in 2023. The importance of mining to economies in the region is clear. The mining sector contributes about 10 percent to GDP across 15 resource intensive sub-Saharan African …
Public Administration, Governance, and Illegal Small-Scale Mining …
This essay applies the philosophical and theoretical premises of public administration and the different phases of governance, to analyzing illegal small-scale mining in Ghana, known in local parlance as galamsey. Illegal mining in Ghana is an archetypical complex problem as it is cross-scalar, involving public, private, nonprofit …
Illegal Mining News, Research and Analysis
All of Ghana's main sources of drinking water have been contaminated by illegal mining activities. Wikimedia Commons December 12, 2022 Ghana had a bad time in 2022 – 4 reads to catch up on ...
Illegal mining threatens Indigenous land at foot of Philippines
MINDANAO, Philippines — Mount Apo, a protected area on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, is threatened by small-scale illegal mining, which remains a lingering problem elsewhere in the ...
10 arrested in connection with illegal mining disaster in …
Rwandan authorities have arrested 10 people allegedly in connection with an illegal quartzite mine disaster that since last week has trapped six artisanal miners in Huye District, Southern Province. These …
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Government of Rwanda, a large-scale mining license N°001/MINIRENA/.16.02 of 29 January 2015 to operate the Rutongo mining area for 25 years. The licensed area covers a surface of around 10,000 ... illegal mining as well as to make a sustainable way forward of eradicating illegal mining in the Rutongo concessions. We continue engagements with ...
Police issues fresh warning against illegal mining
Police said that the "strengthened operations are meant to ensure that mining is done according to the law, fight illegal mining activities, related smuggling and tax evasion, and to save lives.". Law No. 58/2018 of 13/08/2018 on mining and quarry operations, in its article 54, states that "any person who undertakes mineral or quarry ...
Effects of Illegal Mining on the Environment, Economy, and …
The mining of minerals has contributed enormously to most African countries' economies. However, the activities involved in these sectors have turned to hunt our environment and human life due to the lack of regulation in this sector. This paper is a review of the effects of illegal mining on the environment, the economy and agricultural …
How many illegal mines closed after fatal Huye incident?
The Rwanda Mines, Petroleum, and Gas Board (RMB) has ordered the immediate closure of 89 illegal mines across the country. This decision follows an illegal mining saga in which a number of people lost their lives. Narcisse Dushimimana, the Head of Regulation and Inspection at Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board (RMB) told …
Can we win the battle against illegal mining?
The fight against illegal mining has long been fought in Ghana, but never won; and I wonder if it will ever be won. In early July 2018, one illegal mine collapsed…killing 22 illegal miners. This compelled government to promise even tougher action, including a year-long military deployment across several mining sites owned by …
Illegal mining in Ghana: The negative impact on WASH, typhoid, …
In the Shama District, located in the Western region of Ghana and made up of six communities where there is increased illegal mining, diarrheal cases increased from 5,000 to 10,000 in three years. It is likely that typhoid bacteria are similarly found in the unsafe water and that typhoid burden may also be increasing.
Illegal gold miners threaten fragile way of life, deep in Amazon
Despite the evidence of illegal gold mining all around them, the federal police and army don't make any arrests and simply burn the miners' equipment. One officer told CNN: "I gave him a ...
Coltan and conflict in the DRC
A new alliance between the DRC and Rwanda against rebel groups brings new threats and opportunities for peace in the Great Lakes Region, while illegal coltan mining continues to fund conflict ...