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Operation Vanguard — Ghana military/police crackdown on illegal mining (2017)

A recorded event at or around a mining operation: a collapse, a contamination, a raid, a fatality or a conflict event.

TypeIncidentRelationships4Claims held4Checked2026-08First held2026-08
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Geography1

affectsGhanaJurisdiction / administrative areaSingle source
CurrentImpact kindenforcement-arrests-and-equipment-seizure
Evidence

One source states this, and it is labelled as one source.

  • LocatorGhana 2020 EITI ASM Technical Report, p.79 — "led to the arrest of many illegal miners... and the confiscating of mining equipment"Documentrecord:eiti-asm-ghana · externalLinkeiti.org/documents

SourceGhana 2020 EITI ASM Technical ReportOrigingold-hubRecorded2026-08-29

Events and evidence3

involvedGhana Armed ForcesRegulator / public authoritySingle source
CurrentRoleauthority
Evidence

One source states this, and it is labelled as one source.

  • LocatorGhana 2020 EITI ASM Technical Report, p.79Documentrecord:eiti-asm-ghana · externalLinkeiti.org/documents

SourceGhana 2020 EITI ASM Technical ReportOrigingold-hubRecorded2026-08-29

involvedGhana Police ServiceRegulator / public authoritySingle source
CurrentRoleauthority
Evidence

One source states this, and it is labelled as one source.

  • LocatorGhana 2020 EITI ASM Technical Report, p.79Documentrecord:eiti-asm-ghana · externalLinkeiti.org/documents

SourceGhana 2020 EITI ASM Technical ReportOrigingold-hubRecorded2026-08-29

occurred atGhanaJurisdiction / administrative areaSingle source
Current · 2017 → present
Evidence

One source states this, and it is labelled as one source.

  • LocatorGhana 2020 EITI ASM Technical Report, p.79 — "Operation Vanguard using a joint task force of the Ghana Police and the Ghana Armed Forces"Documentrecord:eiti-asm-ghana · externalLinkeiti.org/documents

SourceGhana 2020 EITI ASM Technical ReportOrigingold-hubObserved2017Recorded2026-08-29

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