From pretence and raids to reform; a new strategy for galamsey – Senyo Hosi writes

Use Better Recovery to Finance Responsible Mining Galamsey operators tell me that their conventional mining methods recover about 30% of available gold; the CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Mines has estimated galamsey recovery at about 40%.

Germany’s Ambassador to Ghana, Frederik Landshöft, captured the human stakes when he recently said: “Around one million people are estimated to work in artisanal and small-scale mining.

When effectively executed, a transparent share of the additional value recovered should finance the equipment, the reengineered processes and infrastructure, reclamation, monitoring and traceability required to make small-scale mining effective and responsible.