These people didn't know anything but mining and nowhere else to go, they would rather die in Ghana if they can't make enough money to return home.
The only way for these Chinese illegal individual minters to stay unnoticed in Ghana is to mingle with legal employees of Chinese companies working in the country, but that isn't easy as companies are concerned about losing their mining contracts just for the sake of protecting some illegal miners even if they were fellow countrymen.
Six major Chinese companies are operating legally in Ghana and most of them are already in trouble, accused of abusing labor rights and causing environmental damage in the country.
It is highly unlikely that any of these companies will came to the rescue of the remaining illegal individual Chinese miners, analysts added.
No one has the exact number of Chinese miners in Ghana. Authorities estimated that gold miners from Shanglin alone, both legal and illegal,numbers around 50,000. The fate of most of these workers remained uncertain for the time being.
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