Table 3.
Summary data showing broad categories of galamsey operations, their sightings, individuals within clusters and their abundance across the eleven MDAs
| MDAs | Simultaneous mining and processing galamsey |
Mining only galamsey category |
Processing/Extraction only galamsey category |
Overall Sighting Total | Total Sum of Operations within clusters | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sightings | Individuals within Cluster | Sightings | Individuals within Cluster | Sightings | Individuals within Cluster | |||
| Amenfi Central | 50 | 239 | 7 | 382 | 3 | 6 | 60 | 627 |
| Amenfi East | 194 | 1217 | 9 | 148 | 20 | 32 | 223 | 1397 |
| Amenfi West | 37 | 185 | 1 | 3 | 38 | 188 | ||
| Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai | 31 | 101 | 11 | 31 | 12 | 12 | 54 | 144 |
| Ellembele | 6 | 29 | 6 | 29 | ||||
| Mpohor | 12 | 64 | 3 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 90 |
| Nzema East | 6 | 20 | 6 | 20 | ||||
| Prestea Huni Valley | 52 | 379 | 36 | 665 | 68 | 86 | 156 | 1130 |
| Sefwi Wiawso | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Tarkwa Nsuaem | 129 | 1061 | 54 | 2432 | 111 | 155 | 294 | 3648 |
| Wassa East | 48 | 149 | 2 | 40 | 4 | 4 | 54 | 193 |
| Grand Total | 567 | 3446 | 122 | 3723 | 222 | 301 | 911 | 7470 |