He showed that activities of small-scale miners, especially the illegal ones, degraded the land more than their counterparts in the large-scale sector, due to the weak legal regime.
He said what was even more disturbing was the fact that Chinese miners blocked the watercourse, denied inhabitants their source of drinking water and deteriorated the quality as well.
“The Government of Ghana has a task to improve water quality and also reduce treatment cost. Gold mining brings with it arsenic, mercury and sulphur contamination of water bodies, soil and even air,” Prof. Ansah-Asare added.
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