Committees to manage small-scale mining in districts
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has begun a process to establish and implement monitoring mechanisms in the communities as part of measures to enhance land and natural resource administration in the country.
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In that regard, 24 district mining committees (DMCs) have been established to manage small-scale mining, while efforts have also been stepped up under the local content initiative to increase the number of local products used by mining companies.
Taking his turn at the meet the press series in Accra yesterday, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Nii Osah Mills, said the complex challenges that undermined land and natural resource administration required effective stakeholder collaboration to overcome.
Agencies under the ministry, such as the Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands (OASL), the Geological Survey Department (GSD) and the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC), were represented at the event.
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