{
  "id": 437735,
  "title": "Poor formalisation of small-scale mining worsened galamsey crisis – GoldBod CEO",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/poor-formalisation-of-small-scale-mining-worsened-galamsey-crisis",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-10T04:33:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/poor-formalisation-of-small-scale-mining-worsened-galamsey-crisis-goldbod-ceo/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), Sammy Gyamfi, has attributed Ghana’s persistent illegal mining crisis partly to decades of inadequate formalisation and state support for artisanal and small-scale mining.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}