General News of Sunday, 16 December 2018Source: ghananewsagency.org3,000 trained former illegal miners to be grouped into community gangsplay videoPius Enam Hadzide, a Deputy Minister of InformationThree thousand (3,000) former illegal small-scale miners who had undergone training at the University of Mine and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa, would soon be grouped into community mining gangs to mine legally. Mr Pius Enam Hadzide, a Deputy Minister of Information, said this in a news briefing in Accra on Sunday. He said henceforth all mining should conform to the guidelines outlined in the new mining policy framework out-doored by the government last Friday, December 14. He said the list of the validated miners would be published in both print and electronic media outlets from Monday, December 17 to 23. He assured of government's commitment to work with all stakeholders and urged Ghanaians to support the continued fight against illegal mining.

Source: GhanaWeb December 16, 2018 16:52 UTC