By Dennis Peprah, GNA Accra, Nov, 16, GNA - The fight against uncontrolled illegal mining activities, popularly called 'galamsey', is putting a huge financia...

As the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration grapples with fall in prices of crude oil, which account for over 70 percent of the nation’s foreign exchange earnings ...

In a bid to curb illegal mining activities, the Union Minister of State for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines has launched the Mining Surveillance ...

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The Ministry hereby officially requests that the People’s Republic of China assist and support the Somali Federal Government’s efforts to stop the illegal mining ...

The Mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... as well as the international corporations and governments that imported illegal minerals ...

A mobile application is being developed to help the authorities track illegal mining activities in and around their work of operation. “The android app will be used ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): An anti-corruption body in Afghanistan has alleged a local firm on Sunday for illegal gold mining in the country. At a press conference in Kabul ...

Illicit diamond diggers risk their lives in South Africa, where mineral wealth was not equally shared.

Mining scams in India ... limestone, while 482 licenses granted for trading and storage of minerals have been cancelled to stop illegal mining.The Justice ...

The world's largest gorilla sub-species has seen its population fall 77 percent over the past two decades, a trend linked to illegal mining for coltan, a key mineral ...

Up to 20 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo depend on the illegal mining minerals as their sole source of income, according to intelligence agencies.

A Look Inside the Illegal Mining Industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... War for Minerals is photographer Erberto Zani‘s visual investigation of the men ...

Blog / Dec. 1, 2016. Managing the risk of illegal mining and conflict minerals in global supply chains

The Economics of Illegal Mining Ross Harvey ... uncomplicated and coherent minerals and labour legislation is a necessary if insufficient condition for growing the ...

The government of Ghana is getting close to pass a new Minerals and Mining Act that seeks to fully regulate the sector could help to effectively deal with illegal ...

Management of Dangote Group, over the weekend accused BUA of engaging in illegal mining of limestone deposited in its Mining Lease, No. 2541, located in a

In April 2016 the EU reached a political understanding on a proposed regulation on conflict minerals and supply chain due diligence ... a foreign mining company and ...

Andhra Pradesh state government’s vigilance department has charged India’s leading mineral sand miner Trimex for illegal mining ... illegal mining and ...

One of the main criteria used to define illegal mining is the absence of land rights, mining license, exploration or mineral transportation permit or of any document ...

Indian Bureau of Mines found that 14,204 cases of illegal mining across India in 2010-11.

The document states that minerals are the natural resources most easily converted to cash and this drives rent-seeking, illegal mining, bending of rules, turning a ...

The Taliban Stones Commission and the Insurgent Windfall from Illegal Mining ... The Scope of Illegal Mining Activities ... illegal mineral extraction, ...

Illegal mining: Gujarat govt to create GIS maps ... provisions Gujarat Mineral (Prevention of Illegal Mining and ... The Indian Express had reported a 53 ...

THE Federal Government has pledged to continue its fight against illegal mining and mineral export in Nigeria.

The Peruvian mining industry has a major problem globally known: most of it is illegal. And although the United States tries to take action against this scourge that ...

International regulations have failed to prevent foreign firms and armed groups from profiting from illegal gold mining in mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of ...

Propelled by the skyrocketing global price of minerals, illegal mining has recently come into focus as a major environmental and social concern. Images of pristine ...

Sep 10, 2014· (Kitco News) - Illegal gold mining is by no means a new phenomenon, but it has been getting more and more attention with gold’s decade-long bull run. In ...

Nov 29, 2013· Mexican drug cartels now ... Such large-scale illegal mining operations were long ... or illegally extracting the mineral themselves and selling ...

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Sep 11, 2017· There are international covenants and agreements in place to deal with conflict minerals, but illegal mining continues regardless in the DRC and Rwanda.