Table 4.
Abundance of galamsey types across the eleven selected MDAs
| Galamsey types | Host MDAs for Galamsey Operations |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAC |
WAE |
WAW |
BAB |
Ell |
Mpoh |
NE |
PHV |
SW |
TN |
WE |
Total Clust | Total Singles | ||||||||||||
| Sightings | IWC | Sightings | IWC | Sightings | IWCs | Sightings | IWC | Sightings | IWC | Sightings | IWC | Sightings | IWC | Sightings | IWC | Sightings | IWC | Sightings | IWC | Sightings | IWC | |||
| AWB | 36 | 104 | 109 | 374 | 34 | 151 | 29 | 95 | 6 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 63 | 11 | 23 | 234 | 837 | ||||||
| AWP | 9 | 32 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 54 | ||||||||||||
| ANW | 5 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 46 | 10 | 55 | 21 | 116 | ||||||||||||||
| Cham | 7 | 92 | 61 | 703 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 25 | 9 | 52 | 5 | 16 | 29 | 254 | 35 | 583 | 152 | 1743 | ||||||
| D&W | 7 | 43 | 15 | 105 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 78 | 25 | 173 | 64 | 433 | ||||||
| MH | 3 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 67 | 83 | 2 | 2 | 111 | 155 | 4 | 4 | 216 | 287 | ||||
| R/S Dred | 1 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 56 | 209 | 26 | 70 | 86 | 296 | ||||||||||||||
| AUS/T | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 22 | 30 | ||||||||||||||||
| USP | 7 | 382 | 9 | 148 | 5 | 25 | 3 | 25 | 30 | 656 | 42 | 2398 | 2 | 40 | 98 | 3674 | ||||||||
| Grand Total | 60 | 627 | 223 | 1397 | 38 | 188 | 54 | 144 | 6 | 29 | 16 | 90 | 6 | 20 | 156 | 1130 | 4 | 4 | 294 | 3648 | 54 | 193 | 911 | 7470 |
Galamsey Types: Chamfi = Chamfi; AWP = Alluvial Washing Plant; MH = Mill House; R/S Dredg = River/Stream Dredging; USP = Underground Sample Pit/Hole; AUS/T = Abandoned Underground Shafts/Tunnels; AWB = Alluvial Washing Board; ANW = Anwona; D&G = Dig and Wash; ND = No Data recorded.
Host MDAs: WAC = Amenfi Central, WAE = Amenfi East, WAW = Amenfi West, BAB = Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai, Ell = Ellembele, Mpo = Mpohor, NE = Nzema East, PHV = Prestea Huni Valley, SW = Sefwi Wiawso, TN = Tarkwa Nsuaem, WE = Wassa East, Cluster = grouped similar operation on the same piece of land, Singles = galamsey operations in stand-alone mode
Sightings: number of galamsey operations observed per site, including clusters; IWC = Individual number of galamsey operations within clusters recorded