The 2024 flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has promised to regulate the Small-Scale Mining sector in Ghana to ensure that the country benefits immensely from the industry.
Dr.
Bawumia who was addressing a stakeholder's engagement in Upper Denkyira West in the Central Region said his administration will permit registered small-scale miners to make use of data from the Geological Survey Authority in their work. "We want to implement something new which is that we would cause the Geological Survey Authority to map out the exact location of gold deposits in mining areas so that mining will not just be digging from place to place, the miners will know exactly where the gold is…," he said.
The data generated from the Geological Survey Authority investigations, Dr.