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Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has outlined his strategy for combating illegal mining, emphasising a preventive approach.<\/p>\n
He stated that his plan involves sanitising the small-scale mining sector by empowering the Geological Survey Authority to prospect for minerals and creating a resource pool of equipment to support sustainable mining practices.<\/p>\n
Speaking at Kpone Katamanso on Tuesday, Dr. Bawumia made these remarks in response to a question about his approach to tackling the illegal mining issue, commonly known as \u2018galamsey.\u2019<\/p>\n
He stressed the importance of proactive measures to ensure that mining is conducted responsibly and sustainably.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo one needs to look at the whole regime of small-scale mining and sanitise that regime, regularise the regime. Make sure that the Geological Survey Authority of Ghana does the mapping for where all the gold reserves are.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the moment people are just doing trial and error, destroying our environment. There is no data backing where they go. They just go and dig, they don\u2019t find, they go to the next place and start digging. they don\u2019t find, they go to the next place.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I want us to set up community mining schemes with certainty from the geological survey department that here you have gold. In that case, we can make sure that those who are mining there are regularised. We bring in these gold catcher machines that don\u2019t use mercury and make sure they are not in water bodies.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we direct them and license them into areas so that they do responsible mining and environmentally sustainable mining.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is the way you stop this. But if you don\u2019t regulate them then they will hide to do it at night and when they feel people are not watching them, that\u2019s where they will go.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will get into the water bodies. But we need to regulate them and we need to also enforce the laws that are already existent,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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