Mining, Forests and Land-use Conflict: The Case …
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 ...
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'Landguardism' in Ghana: Examining public
Landguardism has become a bane in Ghana's urban land markets. Previous studies have qualitatively explored the drivers of this phenomenon from the perspectives of both state agencies and landguards themselves. Despite the insights uncovered, understanding of public perceptions about the factors driving landguardism in Ghana is …
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USGS Scientists Help Address Conflict Mining
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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Ghana's Illegal Galamsey Gold Mining Affecting Cocoa …
The area covered by the Pra River Basin—including parts of Ghana's Central, Western, and Ashanti regions—is the country's cocoa heartland. It also holds the highest concentration of gold ...
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Mining, Environment and Community Conflicts: A Study of …
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 …
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Mining, Environment and Community Conflicts: A Study …
Keywords: Environmental Resources, Conflicts, Ghana, Gold Mining, and Livelihood . 65 Journal of Sustainable Development Studies 1. Introduction Across the globe, several processes of socio-economic, environmental and political ... communities and urban areas. The mining sector has been at the fulcrum of intense controversy and trajectories ...
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Strained Relations: A Critical Analysis of the Mining Conflict …
Abstract and Figures. 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 ...
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Mining, Environment and Community Conflicts: A Study of …
Wassa Association of Communiti es Affected by Mining (2013) Mining is destroying livelihoods in Ghana [online] available at: [Assessed 11 March 2013] [27] Whitem an, G. and K. Mam en (2002) Examining justice and conflict between mining companies and indigenous peoples: Cerro Colorado and the Ngabe-Bugle in Panama, …
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Living with conflicts in Ghana's Prestea mining area: …
Sources and causes of conflict in Prestea mining communities. The dominant source of conflicts in Prestea is land use conflicts (75) representing 93.8% and the least source of conflicts is environmental pollution related conflicts (5) representing …
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Grievance and conflict in Ghana's gold mining industry: The …
Abstract. This paper critically explores the key issues of grievance and conflict unfolding in Ghana's gold mining industry. It examines the dynamics of conflict between illegal artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) and one large-scale mining company, AngloGold Ashanti, in Obuasi. The paper reveals the peculiar nature of the …
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(PDF) Living with conflicts in Ghana's Prestea mining area: …
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 ...
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The conflict potential of sand: Illegal sand mining on …
We collected data from different online sources and found that between 1990 and 2021, (a) sand has been mined illegally in 35 African countries and (b) 21 of them …
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Mining and resettlement communities in Ghana
Mining-induced displacement and resettlement is not only an issue of individual human rights violations, but also of collective rights, community-company conflicts, the struggle …
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Bauxite mining at Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana: a political …
The states of Guinea, Ghana and Sierra Leone are home to the most important bauxite mining areas in Africa. In 2014, Guinea, the fourth largest producer in the world, produced 17.3 million tons of bauxite, Sierra Leone 1.16 million tons, and Ghana only about 837,000 tons (USGS 2016 ).
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Human rights violations continue in Ghana's mining sector
WASHINGTON, DC-- International humanitarian organization Oxfam America calls on Ghana's government to address ongoing human rights violations in the West African nation's mining industry. The call to action comes after 23-year old Kwame Eric was shot to death August 10 by an employee of Ghanatta Security Services, a …
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Social Legitimacy as the Unresolved Driver in Mining …
1 Introduction. This chapter discusses the principle of social legitimacy in mining and evaluates its impact on the rising volume of mining disputes and conflicts …
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Strained relations: A critical analysis of the mining conflict …
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 …
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Ghana's artisanal miners are a law unto themselves: …
Ghana is Africa's largest gold producer, the sixth globally.It produced approximately 129 metric tonnes in 2021.. Gold mining in Ghana stretches back over 1000 years. It first served as a ...
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Impacts of Surface Gold Mining on Land Use Systems in Western Ghana
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 …
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Climate and Conflict in Ghana
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).
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Social Legitimacy as the Unresolved Driver in Mining Conflicts…
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, …
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How Mining Fuels Conflict Across the Globe
April 30, 2023, 10:00 AM. Sand in the South China Sea, bauxite in Ghana, rubies in Mozambique, gold in the Central African Republic, coal in Afghanistan. All of these resources are being mined ...
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Bauxite mining at Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana: a political
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 …
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Evaluating conflict surrounding mineral extraction in Ghana: …
Increases in both large-scale mining and SSM activity have led to an intensification of conflict in areas surrounding operations over access to mineral-rich lands (Hilson, 2001, Hilson, 2002a, Hilson, 2002b, Hilson and Potter, 2005, Gamu et al., 2015).The Government of Ghana continues to work to attract foreign investment to …
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(PDF) Strained Relations: A Critical Appraisal of the …
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 Ltd. (BGL ...
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Mining, the environment, and human rights in …
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE. Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective. Uwafiokun Idemudia,Cynthia Kwakyewah,Judy Muthuri, …
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A Contextual Review of the Ghanaian Small-Scale …
Over $117 million in gold and $98 million in diamond product has been obtained from small-scale mining operations since complete legalization of the industry in 1989. Gold production from the small-scale gold-mining industry has increased nearly tenfold since 1989, from 17,234oz in 1990 to 107,093oz in 1997.
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An analysis of the foremost issues with artisanal and small
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 …
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Resolving Water Conflicts in Mining Areas of Ghana …
In Wassa West district of Ghana, mining as an industry has been promoted in the recent past, but with significant impact on environmental aspects, especially water, leading to …
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ILLEGAL MINING AS THREAT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA…
opportunities in rural areas of Ghana, especially mining communities (Teschner, 2011; Bush, 2008). According to Banchirigah (2008) th e narrative that poverty
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