#galamsey — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #galamsey, aggregated by home.social.
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Slow death by food
Illegal gold mining is poisoning Ghana’s soil and rivers, seeping into its crops and seafood, and turning the national food system into a long-term public health crisis."the most potent form of ecological violence"
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L’or illégal ghanéen soupçonné d’apparaître dans les produits d’#Amazon, #Tesla, #Starbucks et #Xerox
Blanchiment, marché noir, mélange du métal précieux extrait légalement et illégalement dès la sortie de la mine…
Le Monde : https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/10/24/l-or-illegal-ghaneen-soupconne-d-apparaitre-dans-les-produits-d-amazon-tesla-starbucks-et-xerox_6649180_3210.html
Archive : https://archive.is/RnKn9=> Galamsey refers to illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana. The term is derived from the English phrase "gather them and sell".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galamsey -
Lots of discussion in Ghana at the moment about galamsey (in short, illegal gold-mining, but there is more complexity of course!). Causing destruction of cocoa farms (often without owner's consent!) and also ancient/semi-natural forest fragments. Solution is going to be complex and multilayered, but in the meantime it's another challenge for a cocoa sector already under stress.
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Polluted rivers, uprooted farmland and lost taxes: Ghana counts cost of illegal gold mining boom
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/25/polluted-rivers-taxes-ghana-illegal-gold-mining-boom
"The Ghana Water Company’s capacity to supply clean water to some parts of the country has been reduced by 75%. Researchers from the University of Cape Coast say Ghana may have to import water by 2030."
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Polluted rivers, uprooted farmland and lost taxes: #Ghana counts cost of illegal #gold mining boom - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/25/polluted-rivers-taxes-ghana-illegal-gold-mining-boom " The illegal mining is known as “#galamsey”, a pidgin contraction of the phrase “gather them and sell”