articles on regulatory framework for local content of mining in ghana

(PDF) Policy Enabling Environment of Mining Sector in Tanzania: …

The Petroleum Act 2019 itself already provides a comprehensive framework that guides the development of regulations to implement local content and has a suggestion on how mining communities can be ...

Legal pluralism in practice: critical reflections on the formalisation

Since formalisation was officially introduced into the Ghanaian artisanal and small-scale mining landscape in the early 1980s, its law and policy framework has largely been driven by a state-run, institutionalised hegemony.This is against the background that ASM in Ghana, like many other countries of the Global South, operates on the …

Ghana's illegal mining continues because the rules and reality are

The study identified two key related factors that drive illegal mining in Ghana. First, the mines are transient but getting a mining licence is time-consuming. Second, the regulatory framework doesn't take into account the diverse reality of operations.

ILLEGAL MINING AS THREAT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA…

Within the past few decades, Ghana's mining sector specifically the small scale mining subsector has been marred by controversies mainly due to its threat to sustainable development. This paper ...

Regulating for local content: Limitations of legal and regulatory

In Ghana, the national government pursued local content provisions through the Local Content and Local Participation in Petroleum Activities Policy Framework in 2010. This Framework focuses on "the level of use of Ghanaian local expertise, goods and services, people, businesses and financing in oil and gas activities" (p. 2).

Local content implementation and development in Ghana's

2.1 Contemporary discussions on Ghana's local content policy Refs. [8, 14] noted that the concept of local content in Ghana predates the Minerals and Mining Law, 2006 (Act, 703) and the Minerals and Mining (General) Regulations, 2012 (LI, 2173), which both introduced a local content framework to Ghana's longstanding mining sector.

Regulatory Structures and Challenges to Developmental …

Section 13.5 provides a brief examination of Ghana's local content policy framework and its implications for the integration of the country's mining sector into the economy. Section 13.6 concentrates on the regulatory challenges from the practical perspective of the regulator and provides some suggestions on how the extraction of Ghana's ...

Legal and regulatory changes in Ghana address challenges facing mining

The mining sector in Ghana, in particular gold mining, is one of Africa's oldest, but growth has been hampered in recent years by external factors such as lower metal prices and internal ones like the rising cost of electricity and illegal mining. ... Legal and regulatory changes in Ghana address challenges facing mining. Ghana | Energy ...

SMALL SCALE MINING IN GHANA

Legal and Regulatory Framework Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703) Section 81-99 ... SSM of gold in Ghana is a pre historic activity which can be traced to the 5th Century ... Minerals and Mining (Local Content and Local Participation) Regulation, 2020 (L.I. 2431) License for small scale mining :(Act 703, Section 82 [1]) ...

Local Content And Local Participation In Ghana's Petroleum

The high interest in Ghana's oil and gas industry has brought to the fore certain critical issues including local content which require the enactment of specific legislation to reinforce the legal and regulatory framework for the sector.

How the Ghanaian government is supporting community mining

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a major driver of the economy, directly employing an estimated 1m Ghanaians and supporting around 4.5m others. ASM – categorised by concessions of under 4000 sq metres – has accounted for around onethird of the country's total gold output in recent years. "Almost all the jewellery worn in Ghana.

Community Mining In Ghana

Ghana: Community Mining In Ghana. In Ghana, gold mining has always been a profitable venture for people in areas rich with minerals. Small-Scale Mining (SSM) is a major driver of the economy, directly employing an estimated 1 million Ghanaians and supporting around 4.5 million others. SSM has accounted for around one-third of the …

Local Content Participation

L.I. 2431 MINERALS AND MINING (LOCAL CONTENT AND LOCAL PARTICIPATION) REGULATIONS, 2020 IN exercise of the power conferred on the …

residents in mining communities in Ghana environmental …

regulatory framework. 1.1. Aims of the study The study was undertaken to answer the following questions: (1) What are the perceptions of the communities on the impacts of mining and what specific activities/aspects of mining account for those impacts? (2) Does the legal and regulatory framework for mining in Ghana conform to

A general introduction to oil and gas law in Ghana

This resulted in the enactment of the Petroleum Commission, the E&P Act, which provides an overarching framework, and the Petroleum (Local Content and Local Participation) Regulations enacted to ...

Sustainable development in Ghana's gold mines: Clarifying the

development within Ghana's gold mines and to ensure its alignment with SDGs, a regulatory framework is. ... local content (IFC, 2014) in Ghana's mining sector. Regarding the social.

CONSTRUCTION RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND POLICIES IN GHANA

Mining and M inerals Act,1986, Minerals Commission Act,1993, Minerals Export Duty(Abolition) A ct,1987, Minerals Health Areas Act,1925, Small Scale Gold Mining Act,1989, Vol ta River Development ...

Local Content Law and Practice: The Case of Ghana | Mining for …

9.3 Regulatory institutional challenges 9.3 Regulatory institutional challenges. 10. ... The Case of Ghana', in John Page, and Finn Tarp (eds), Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in Africa (Oxford, 2020; ... and institutional reports on local content law and practice in Ghana's oil and gas sector. Current local content policy ...

Minerals Commission Official Website

Created Date: 20210111145643Z

Ghana's illegal mining continues because the rules …

This generic regulatory framework fails to link the diverse types of the sector's operations to appropriate levels and forms of control. Some of the sector's most vulnerable operators can't ...

Governance challenges of small-scale gold mining in Ghana: …

The review of the legislation indicated that a rather comprehensive legal framework has been adopted in Ghana. The mining sector in Ghana is governed primarily by the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703) (Government of Ghana, 2006) (as amended in 2015 and recently in 2019) and the Minerals Commission Act. These serve as the …

(PDF) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND LAND DISPUTE OF …

This paper will look at the history of small-scale gold mining in Ghana, including the evolution of the regulatory framework of mining activities. Discover the world's research 25+ million members

Local Content Implementation Enhancement through Infrastructure

Since the discovery of oil and gas (O&G) in commercial quantities in 2007, Ghana has made some progress in passing several policies such as Local Content and Participation Framework, ostensibly to ...

Local content implementation and development in …

(PDF) Local content implementation and development in Ghana's …

The literature on Ghana' s oil and gas local content laws has so far focused extensively on employment, local content implementation politics, and the role of Small to Medium Scale Enterprises ...

Local content

Synopsis –Ghana mining sector Highlights • The local content framework is set out briefly in the mining legislation, with more detail provided in the general mining regulations. …

Local content and participation in Ghana's oil and gas industry: …

As Morris et al. (2012) note, the extent of linkages is to some degree a function of policy. Ghana's local content law Petroleum (Local Content and Local Participation) Regulations 2013 sets out the framework for catalysing linkages. Conclusion. The question of whether or not Ghana can avert the resource curse is overly simplistic.

The dynamics and livelihood implications of illegal …

Employing qualitative in‐depth interviews with 193 local galamsey operators, the study found that economic factors coupled with the combative posture of state regulatory agencies explain the ...

Regulations

Minerals and Mining (Local Content and Local Participation) Regulations. DOWNLOAD >> Minerals and Mining Regulations ... Minerals House #12 Switchback Road Residential Area Cantonment - Accra GL- 060 -1131. …

Ghana's battle with illegal small-scale mining | Africa at LSE

In May 2019, Ghana is rumoured to have recently overtaken South Africa as Africa's largest gold producer. Gold represents up to 49 per cent of the country's exports, contributing $8.35 billion to Ghana's $59 billion GDP. With gold trading at over $1,274.15 an ounce in mid 2019, four times the value twenty years ago, it represents a ...