SMALL SCALE MINING
Small-scale mining is an essentially
artisanal or small industrial form of raw material extraction. In Ghana,
small-scale mining constitutes a major source of employment especially for gold
and diamonds, and contribute some foreign exchange for Ghana.
Apart from gold and diamonds, other small-scale activities serving for employment for a lot of people are salt, kaolin, silica, sand, brown clay, aggregates and crushed rocks, etc.
