“Local police arrested the suspected illegal miners in the country’s capital, Accra. Many of them are likely to face deportation. Ghana, the continent’s second-largest gold producer, has forbidden foreigners from working in its small-scale mines since the 1980s. Locals have criticised Chinese miners for taking local jobs, polluting lakes and rivers, and wielding weapons such as AK-47 rifles to ward off robbers.  More than 50,000 Chinese gold miners have been to Ghana since 2005. Two-thirds of them come from Shanglin, an impoverished county in southern Guangxi province where news of the gold rush spread by word of mouth.”

http://www.bullionstreet.com/news/ghana-arrests-124-chinese-citizens-for-illegal-gold-mining/4935

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