Sentences with phrase «scale illegal miners»

Aside the regular challenges the cocoa sector faces from pests and diseases, activities of small scale illegal miners popularly has emerged to be a major threat to the country's total cocoa output.

This comes on the back of the expiration of a three weeks directive to small scale illegal miners to halt their operations.

Aside the regular challenges the cocoa sector faces from pests and diseases, activities of small scale illegal miners popularly has emerged to be a major threat to the country's total cocoa...

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A code of practice for small - scale mining operations will be outdoored and committees will be formed in all mining Districts to fight illegal mining and address issues relating to small - scale miners

The task force since its composition last year has arrested some 983 illegal miners, violating the government's ban on small - scale mining.

But the group has since the government's renewed fight against illegal mining in the country, expressed its dissatisfaction, particularly on the basis that even those operating with requisite licence have been boxed together with the illegal ones It has been demanding that government draws the line between illegal small scale miners and legitimate small scale miners with licence.

He revealed that the former Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, tried different methods to get him to ease up on the fight against illegal miners within the small - scale mining sector.

The government through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources as part of activities to stop the menace, has temporarily placed a ban on the issuance of licenses for small - scale mining, and directed all illegal miners to cease the practice and evacuate from the various sites.

There is currently a ban on small - scale mining in the country following the widespread devastation of the water resources and forest reserves due to the activities of illegal miners.

A hectare of degraded land caused by the activities of illegal small - scale miners will cost the government GHȻ60, 000 to restore it to the natural state, Mr John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has said.

In the last decade, Ghana witnessed massive destruction of her natural vegetation from the activities of illegal small - scale miners resulting in pollution of the water bodies.