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The Large Footprint of Small-Scale Mining in Ghana

The natural-color image above shows a large-scale mine and several artisanal mines in the Central Region of Ghana. The image was captured on March 29, 2020, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) …

Ghana Districts: A repository of all Local …

The District h as its Administrative capital as Nangodi. The Nabdam District is located in the Upper East Region of Ghana and lies between latitudes 100 47° and 10057° North and Longitudes 0031° and 1015° west. It has a …

Ghana – Cassius Mining

Bolgatanga Project The Gbane Project lies within the Talensi District of the Upper East region in northeastern Ghana. Cassius' Large Scale Prospecting Licence covers a 13.791 km2 area. The Project is at an advanced exploration stage. The Bolgatanga region is characterised by a series of highly prospective granite-greenstone belts (Bole /

Upper East Region | News Ghana

Upper East is located in the north-eastern corner of the country between longitude 00 and 10 West and latitudes 100 30"N and 110N. It is bordered to the north by Burkina Faso, the east by the ...

[PDF] Population dynamics and health hazards of small-scale mining …

Recently, there has been an upsurge of small-scale mining activity in the Bolgatanga and Talensi-Nabdam districts of the Upper East Region following the discovery of gold bearing rocks around the Nangodi and Pelungu areas of the districts. This study attempts to relate population size and health hazards in the study area to the activity of …

Small-Scale and Industrial Gold Mining Histories in …

Small-Scale and Industrial Gold Mining Histories in Nangodi, Upper East Region, Ghana Author(s): Elisha P. Renne Source: Journal of West African History, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 71-94

About The Region – UERCC

The center of population of the Upper East Region is located in its capital of Bolgatanga. The population is primarily rural (79%) and scattered in dispersed settlements. The rural population was 87.1 percent in 1984, 84.3% in 2000 and 76.0% in 2021. With only 50.4% of the population living in urban areas, and 17.4% living in the rural areas.

Identifying Gold Mineralization Potential using Soil …

In the course of identifying the mineralization potential for gold of an area in Nangodi located in the Upper East region of Ghana, soil geochemical data was analyzed for elemental concentrations. Each of the 684 soil …

Ghana Upper East Region

Upper East is located in the north-eastern corner of the country between longitude 00 and 10 West and latitudes 100 30"N and 110N. It is bordered to the north by Burkina Faso, the east by the Republic of Togo, the west by Sissala in Upper West and the south by West Mamprusi in Northern Region (Figure 1).

NAMDINI: Ghana – Cardinal Resources

The Namdini Mining Licence is located approximately 50km south-east of the regional town of Bolgatanga, the capital of the Bolgatanga Municipal District and Upper East Region of north Ghana. It is approximately 60km south of the Burkina Faso-Ghana border and 12 km from Cardinal's Ndongo East Prospect.

Map of the Talensi Nabdam district showing the Nangodi …

Nearly every region in Ghana has had a taste of surface mining stretching from Nangodi, Yale, and Gbani in the Upper East Region of the Northern part of Ghana to Tarkwa in the Southwestern part of ...

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ASGM in Nangodi, which was also the site of the first deep shaft mine in northern Ghana [44] has been influenced by men involved in large-scale mining activities in southern Ghana [45], with ...

Nangodi, Bongo-Nabdam, Upper East, Ghana: Maps

Upper East / Bongo-Nabdam / Area around 10° 38' 32" N, 0° 46' 30" W / Nangodi / ... From simple political to detailed satellite map of Nangodi, Bongo-Nabdam, Upper East, Ghana. Get free map for your website. Discover the beauty hidden in the maps. Maphill is more than just a map gallery. Graphic maps of the area around 10° 38' 32" N, 0° 46 ...

The Role of the Shea Tree in the Upper East Region of Ghana

The Shea tree is a native tree of Northern Ghana, just like the Dawadawa tree, the Baobab tree and the Tarmarundus tree. The Shea tree thrives best in the Sahel, Guinea Savanna and the transitional ecological zones of the Upper East, Upper West, Northern and some parts of Brong Ahafo Regions of Ghana. It can survive on a minimal …

Integrated Assessment of Artisanal and Small-Scale …

A recent study on gold mining in Nangodi, Upper East Region, documents the intersecting gold-mining histories which have …

Upper East Region

The Upper East region is located in the North Eastern part of Ghana covering a total area of 8,842km2. The capital is Bolgatanga, sometimes referred to as 'Bolga'. Other major towns in the region include Navrongo, Paga, Bawku and Zebilla each headed by a Municipal/District Chief Executive. It lies between longitude 0° and 1° West, and ...

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The image above shows gold mining encroachment in the Upper Wassaw Forest Reserve, a habitat for the green-tailed bristlebill and Tai Forest treefrog, which are …

Identifying Gold Mineralization Potential using Soil …

In the course of identifying the mineralization potential for gold of an area in Nangodi located in the Upper East region of Ghana, soil geochemical data was analyzed for elemental concentrations. Each of the 684 soil samples was analyzed for Cu, As, Pb, Zn, U, V, Cr, Co, Ni, Ga, Rb, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Ba, La, Ce, Hf, Th and Cl excluding the ...

a. "The leadframe showing an ore tub being emptied …

ASGM in Nangodi, which was also the site of the first deep shaft mine in northern Ghana [44] has been influenced by men involved in large-scale mining activities in southern Ghana [45], with ...

Nabdam District

The District has its Administrative capital as Nangodi. The Nabdam District is located in the Upper East Region of Ghana and lies between latitudes 100 47° and 10057° North and Longitudes 0031° and 1015° west. It has a total land area of 251km2. It is bordered to the north by the Bongo District, south by the Talensi District, to the east by ...

Assessment of Non-cancerous Health Risk from …

The Nangodi community is located in the Upper East Re-gion of Ghana in the Talensi-Nabdam district. The commu-nity is located in the eastern belt of the Nabdam Traditional area (Fig. 1), which lies fourteen miles west from the Upper East Regional capital Bolgatanga on the main Bawku trunk Road near the Red Volta River. The district lies …

Namdini Gold Deposit, Upper East Region, Ghana

Cardinal Resources' Namdini Gold Deposit is the first major gold discovery in Ghana since 2009 with an open pit ore reserve of 5.1 Moz, a strike length of 1.33 km and a width of …

Small-Scale and Industrial Gold Mining Histories …

This article examines the history of industrial and small-scale gold mining in Nangodi,intheUpperEastRegion,Ghana(Figure1).In1935,twogoldprospec-tors—one …

Small-Scale and Industrial Gold Mining Histories in …

Jean-David Gerber. Michele Amacker. PDF | This paper examines gold mining history in Nangodi, which has linked residents of this small, rural community in northeastern Ghana with... | Find,...

Small-Scale and Industrial Gold Mining Histories in Nangodi, …

Nangodi presents a distinctive gold mining history in Ghana as it had the only industrial mine open in the former Northern Territories. Gold mining there was …

Geospatial characterisation and distribution of Illegal gold mining …

In addition, Nadowli-Kaleo District is dominated by the underground pit galamsey. Wa East District was the hotspot of illegal mining activities (1644 sightings) in the region. Based on the characterisation, this study, argued that galamsey activities in Upper West Region are still at the rudimentary stage as compared to other geographies …

(PDF) Effect of Illegal Small-Scale Mining Operations on …

Nearly every region in Ghana has had a taste of surface mining stretching from Nangodi, Yale, and Gbani in the Upper East Region of the Northern part of Ghana to Tarkwa in the Southwestern part of ...

Assessment of Non-cancerous Health Risk from

DOI: 10.1007/S12403-012-0059-X Corpus ID: 129769690; Assessment of Non-cancerous Health Risk from Exposure to Hg, As and Cd by Resident Children and Adults in Nangodi in the Upper East Region, Ghana

(PDF) Effect of Small Scale Mining on Agricultural Land

Open pit is the dominant operational method used by miners in the community. ... in the Talensi-Nabdam District of the Upper East Region, Ghana. A total of 20 plots (10×10 m) were studied in the ...