Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng
Government has lifted the ban on all forms of small scale mining effective Monday 17th December 2018 after nearly 20 months.
The ban has however been lifted for only small scale miners who have successfully gone through the vetting process for their operations to be properly regulated.
This was made known by the Chairman of the inter-ministerial committee on illegal mining, Prof. Frimpong Boateng at the outdooring of government’s new policy framework on regularizing and reforming mining activities in Ghana.
The lifting of the ban follows the successful vetting of 1,350 small scale miners out of which over 900 have now been giving licenses to operate.
According to Prof. Frimpong Boateng, who’s also the Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, the committee was able to successfully implement all the strategies to curb illegal mining prior to lifting the ban.
“Having successfully implemented the strategies outlined in the road-map, the ban on small-scale mining is being lifted on Monday 17th December 2018 for miners who have gone through vetting successfully within the regularized and reformed framework” the Minister said.
-Citifmonline