8.9 hectares cleared near Manso, Asene Akroso Manso
No clear picture yet. Cloud or haze covered this place in every picture we checked.
Licence on this land
Prospecting licence only
The register shows only a prospecting licence here, which does not allow mining.
The labels come from the Minerals Commission's public licence register. We check it every week, last on 31 October 2026. Mining without a licence is illegal in Ghana, and that is what galamsey is. Read what each label means
Likely galamsey is our own guess. We add it where there is no licence to mine and the satellite sees water in or next to the cleared patch. In the clearest picture we have, from 22 October 2026, there was no open water in or next to this patch, so it does not get the label. A place without this label can still be galamsey. How the guess works
- Size
- 8.9 hectares
- First seen
- 16 April 2026
- Last change
- 10 May 2026
- Nearest town
- Manso, 5.6 km away
- District
- Asene Akroso Manso
- Location
- 5.8958° N, 0.8352° W
- Reference
- 2026-04-5896n0835w
See it closer
Google's pictures are sharper than ours but can be years older, so they may show forest where the land has since been cleared. Google Earth shows the date of its picture.
What this page does and does not say
Satellites saw most of the plant cover here disappear, starting on 16 April 2026. The pictures show the place before and after. Mining leaves pits, bare orange ground and muddy ponds, which you can often see in them.
We do not know who cleared this land or why. Look at the pictures and the licence, and judge for yourself.
What mining looks like from above
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