Chinese And Small Scale Mining In Ghana
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana
Abstract. The recent Chinese involvement in small-scale gold mining in Ghana has received wide publicity and scholarly attention. While the literature has focused on environmental sustainability, political accountability, and institutional reforms, it is yet to examine local adoption of Chinese technology and its impact on Ghana's rural economy.
Lifting the lid on Ghana's illegal small-scale mining problem
Our research ranged from looking at conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining, specifically in relation to Chinese miners and the state in Ghana.
Ghana – Big Man, Big Envelope, Finish: Chinese Corporate Exploitation
This chapter investigates the activities of a Chinese mining company in the small-scale gold mining sector in a corner of Ghana. It questions the legality of its operations, given that small-scale mining is by law ‘reserved for Ghanaians’, and argues that...
Ghana's artisanal miners are a law unto themselves: …
Artisanal and small-scale mining also accounts for 40% of gold produced in Ghana, ... The illegal mining crisis has been exacerbated by the entry into Ghana of undocumented Chinese nationals. They ...
Golden Migrants: The Rise and Impact of Illegal …
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 …
Ghana – Big Man, Big Envelope, Finish: Chinese …
Chinese Corporate Exploitation in Small-Scale Mining Gordon Crawford, Coleman Agyeyomah, and Atinga Mba IntroductIon This chapter investigates a resource conflict that emerged in a far corner of Ghana between a Chinese gold mining company operating in the arti-sanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector and a local opposition group.
Artisanal and small-scale mining formalization challenges in Ghana
Artisanal and small-scale mining for example accounted for 43% of Ghana's total gold production in 2018 (Adu-Baffour et al., 2021). Ghana was one of the first African countries to recognize ASM through the promulgation of a landmark Small-scale Gold Mining Law in 1989 (Government of Ghana, 1989) aimed at mainstreaming ASM …
Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining: Chinese
As gold prices soared from 2008 onwards, tens of thousands of foreign miners, especially from China, entered the small-scale mining sector in Ghana, despite it being 'reserved for Ghanaian ...
Illicit Chinese Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: Beyond …
Using an institutional analytical framework, we argue that the increasing involvement of the Chinese in small-scale mining in Ghana is an expression of a bigger and deep-seated …
Framing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the …
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) plays a significant socio-economic role in the alleviation of poverty. In Ghana, the increase in and persistence of illegal ASM (galamsey) can be explained by unemployment, cumbersome and costly registration, lack of land, corruption and Chinese engagement.Traditionally, Ghanaian governments have …
Illegal Chinese Gold Mining Leaves an Open Wound in Ghana
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.
Small-scale mining in Ghana: The government and the …
The Chinese run Chang Fa small engine depot in Tarkwa imports diesel powered rock crushing machines and water pumps designed specifically for small-scale mining applications. ... Ghana's small-scale mining has evolved beyond the reach of current small-scale mining legislation. The formalization process enacted in the small …
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Ghana – …
Note that artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is subsumed under small-scale mining (SSM). Therefore, even though Act 703 refers to small-scale mining, this includes the artisanal operators (Minerals Commission, 2015). Artisanal and small-scale mining activities in Ghana are regulated by the Minerals Commission of Ghana
Small-scale mining policies in Ghana: Miners
In Ghana, over one million people are employed in the small-scale gold, diamond, sand-winning and quarry industries as compared to Large-Scale Mining (LSM) sector which employed just 29,000 people (Minerals Commission, 2013).
Resource politics and the impact of Chinese involvement …
The role of the state in prioritizing large-scale over small-scale mining also comes into focus here. Much of the legislation on mining privileges large-scale mining, especially foreign companies, over local artisanal mining. The small-scale mining sector has faced decades of financial and technological neglect by the state.
Illicit Chinese Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: Beyond …
institutions promotes illegalities in the small-scale mining industry, and then propose some policy recommendations. The paper concludes by arguing that the increasing involvement of Chinese miners in the small-scale mining sector in Ghana is an expression of a deep-rooted problem shrouded in institutional disjuncture.
Golden Migrants: The Rise and Impact of Illegal Chinese Small‐Scale
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.
Golden Migrants: The Rise and Impact of Illegal …
Such a comprehensive approach is needed in order for policy makers to effectively combat the menace of illegal small-scale mining in Ghana, which continues to be a challenge. Any effective policy against illegal …
A Contextual Review of the Ghanaian Small-Scale …
Small-scale mining in Ghana, as in most developing countries, was for decades treated as an informal industrial sector, employing thousands of people but featuring largely rudimentary, unmonitored and uncontrolled practices.
Golden Migrants: The Rise and Impact of Illegal Chinese …
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.
Ghanaian Court Jails the Notorious Chinese "Galamsey …
The re-arrest of a Chinese national deported from Ghana in 2018 for illegal small-scale gold mining (known in Ghana as galamsey) is causing a media sensation and raising many embarrassing questions. Reporting about ...
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural …
In Manso Akropong, Chinese involvement has led to adverse long-term consequences for the environment and rural livelihoods, but in Bole, local miners' …
A Political Economy of Regulatory Policy: The Case of 'Illegal' Small
Drawing on insights from political economy, this chapter seeks to answer two interrelated questions: How do we explain the rational and strategic behaviors of miners and elected officials in Ghana's small-scale mining sector?
Gold mining's environmental footprints, drivers, and future …
Gold mining operations in Africa can be broadly categorised into two segments: large-scale and small-scale mining. Large-scale mining involves the use of advanced, capital-intensive technology, with formal mining operations registered under existing legal frameworks, typically representing multimillion-dollar investments by …
Golden Migrants: The Rise and Impact of Illegal Chinese …
for the prevalence of illegal Chinese small-scale mining in Ghana, it makes the case of "African Agency" by highlighting the role of Ghanaian civil society in tackling the phenomenon.
Illicit Chinese Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: Beyond
The influx of Chinese miners to Ghana has mainly been driven by high gold prices, increasing cultural cooperation between Ghana and China, and the largely informal nature of small-scale mining in Ghana, which enables easy entry by locals and …
Chinese participation in Ghana's informal gold mining …
This paper brings some clarity to the debate on Chinese participation in Ghana's artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector. Over the past decade, tens of …
Chinese participation in Ghana's informal gold mining …
This paper brings some clarity to the debate on Chinese participation in Ghana's artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of Chinese nationals have migrated to rural Ghana, where they have proceeded to extract gold, for the most part undeterred, illicitly.
[PDF] Illicit Chinese Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: Beyond …
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 …