Bachelor Degree Thesis Ammattikorkeakoulut
Ghana is richly endowed with mineral resources such as gold, diamonds, manganese, bauxite, clays, kaolin, mica, columbitetantalite, feldspar, chrome, silica sand, quartz, salt etc, (Draft National Mining Policy of Ghana, 2010). Artisanal and smallscale mining in Ghana has been in existence as far back as precolonial era (Hilson, 2001).