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Economic crisis: Ghana stops with gold underwater
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Economic crisis: Ghana stops with gold underwater

Ghana is a state rich in gold and in a strong position in the rising power of the world. Weil Jobs is going after it, but it’s just as illegal to take over Edelmetall. Has this gold been won – and is it also for us?

Wer auf Ghana shaut, kommt am Thema Gold nicht vorbei: Denn das Edelmetall ist das mit Abstand wichtigste Exportgut des Westafrikanischen Landes. Doch es stammt nicht nur aus großen Goldminen, sondern wird auch en Handarbeit abgebaut. “Galamsey” is the originator of this practice, libre nach dem English Ausdruck “gather them together and sell”. In small life projects, golden individuals and projects are assured.

Julian Hilgers is a Wirtschaft journalist and African expert. I follow a podcast “Wirtschaft Welt & Weit” which is the subject of Goldabbau research in the craft sector. This is also the “Small-Scale-Mining” network – and it has an open-source license. “It is theoretically legal,” said Julian Hilgers: “The practice is quite such that, dass es kaum überblickt wird, wer hier eigentlich gerade eine Lizenz hat et wer auch innerhalb seiner Lizenz operiert.”

Goldabau in Handarbeit mache etwa 30 Prozent der Goldexporte Ghanas aus, berichtet Julian Hilgers. A wichtiger Faktor, denn schließlich steckt das Land in einer schweren Wirtschaftskrise. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and the Ukrainian war, it is stable economic inflation and prices. The Goldpreis is the same, and it is offered with a man and a job so that the Goldabbau gives men a life. Run a Million Menschen if you are looking for direct results in this way, we have even more Millions profiting indirectly.

Schwere Umweltschäden

Was genau mit dem Gold weiter passiert, bleibt meist im Dunkeln. It is normal that “gold is distributed by the Central Bank of Ghana in the country,” said Julian Hilgers. “Aber auf dem Weg dahin verschwimmt illegal et legales Gold komplett”, erzählt er weiter. Ghana exports gold to the Arab Emirate, India and China. We have the Edelmetall in large quantities which are otherwise damaged. And this is originally a legal classification, but it is also possible that gold is illegal in Europe.

It was also said by Hilgers: “Ghana is not for everyone, the Daumen has decided to stop and this rule has been strengthened to control control,” he said . Hilfreich könnte sein, die “Internationalen Länder bei this theme is stronger in the Pflicht zu nehmen”. And also the Verbraucherinnen and Verbraucher könnten verstärkt Informationen beim Goldkauf einfordern.

So there is a huge problem for Ghana of illegal Goldabbau, and the problem of doublethink: a man who has problems with the environment through chemicals, the government of the country is tough and green – and Kakao has increasingly important export profits. Wirtschaftlicher Bedeutung für das Land. And for others, immense team leaders from Ghana. “Dabei wäre ein wirtschaftlicher Aufschwung für dieses Land wirklich wichtig”, says Julian Hilgers, “damit die vielen jungen Menschen irgendwie Arbeit finden”.