Post #134

🇬🇭Finally a Good Idea 💡On October 28 the Ghanaian Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources announced plansto establish regional facilities for granting mining permits, as the country is drowning in mercury used in widespread illegal mining - galamsey. ⏩ This initiative is one of the only sensible policies produced by the current administration in its David and Goliath fight with illegal mining.⏪ 🔸 Previously, the government’s Gold Board announced a blockchain system to track gold (do they even know that the gold is smelted during the production process?) and revoked roughly 300 small‑scale licences. 🔸 However, the illegal miners - many of them foreign, especially Chinese - do not actually care about these efforts until working illegally becomes much more costly than being “clean.” To shift this balance of costs, the country needs to facilitate first the expansion of the legal mining sector — unless, of cource, it has sufficient police power to wipe out irregularities completely, which Ghana does not. Devils Below