#galamsey

Nine bodies have been retrieved from flooded galamsey pit by rescue team at Gbane in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region but unfortunately three more bodies have gone missing. The police has confirmed that nine of the miners who were trapped in the galamsey pit were pronounced dead by medics. The miners were trapped after the pit they were working in three nights ago was engulfed by water following heavy rains. Rescue team reportedly spent nearly 48 hours pumping water out of the underground mining tunnels…

Latest report gathered by Pinaxnews.com indicates that, an authority in Ghana's official presidential residence, Jubilee House, has been confined for apparently engaging illegal mining popularly known as galamsey. Minority Leader in parliament, Haruna Iddrisu uncovered this in an article published on Starrfm.com.gh. He made mention of one Damoah as the Jubilee House official who was suspected galamsey. This is what he had to say; ''We are following closely. Nobody should make an attempt to cover up what his…

Over 9 Galamsey workers are feared dead after being trapped in a pit at a site called Accra Cite at Talensi in the Northern region of Ghana. According to reporst following a heavy downpour two days ago in Talensi the rain water filled up the pits in which the galamseyers were working in making it hard for them to come out after they were notified of the weather being cloudy. Angel FM correspondent explained that some constructors where constructing a road close to where the incident occurred and they blocked a major…