As Ghana is experiencing a new gold rush, widespread corruption is allowing illegal mining to flourish.With the price of precious metals surging on the world market, Ghana is experiencing a new gold rush as more people try and get access to its most famous export. Unfortunately, much of that effort revolves around unlicensed – and hence illegal – mining operations, known locally as galamsey, which are often funded by foreign speculators and criminals.As Ghanaian investigative reporter, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has been discovering, the consequences of this indifference can be tragic. In June 2010 for example, one galamsey operation near Dunkwa-on-Offin, in central Ghana, went disastrously wrong when the mine flooded and 150 people were killed.
http://www.myweku.com/2011/12/documentary-ghana-gold-illegal-gold-mining-galamsey/
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