{"id":13458,"date":"2025-10-03T19:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13458"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:01:44","slug":"13458","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13458","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"309\">The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has revealed that more than three million Ghanaians are legally employed in small-scale mining.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"311\" data-end=\"504\">Speaking at a meeting with Civil Society Organisations and members of the clergy on Friday, October 3, the minister said the sector now accounts for the majority of the country\u2019s gold output.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"1089\">He noted that what was once an informal activity has now grown into a significant contributor to the economy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"1089\">While small-scale mining was historically characterised by the use of rudimentary tools such as hammers and chisels, operators today employ heavy machinery, including excavators.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"a-single a-10\">\u201cSmall-scale mining is the largest gold producer in Ghana. 52% of the gold in Ghana is produced by small-scale mining, and large-scale mining 48%. Mining is the lifeline for 3million+ Ghanaians, especially in rural communities. Small-scale mining used to be an informal economic sector that has persisted for centuries.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHistorically, rudimentary tools such as hammers and chisels were employed, but now they use heavy machinery such as excavators,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has revealed that more than three million Ghanaians are legally employed in small-scale mining. Speaking at a meeting with Civil Society Organisations and members of the clergy on Friday, October 3, the minister said the sector now accounts for the majority of the country\u2019s gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3525,3922,41],"tags":[2658,1385],"class_list":["post-13458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-galamsey","category-general-news","tag-galamsey","tag-lands-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13460,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458\/revisions\/13460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}