Talensi’s gold can still belong to Talensi: The case for a community cooperative model

In his recent article on the dispute between Nalaamtaaba Mining Company and Earl International, Nyeya Yen asked the question that matters most: who owns Ghana’s gold in practice, and who should benefit from it? He also mourned a missed opportunity.The state, he argued, could have organised Talensi’s small-scale miners into community-owned, safe and technically capable enterprises instead of leaving them to compete with far larger players.