The Gold Burden A - Hotline Documentary on JoyNews (26-3-18)

In the latest Hotline documentary, Joy News' Latif Iddris returns from a tour of these mining areas where he interacted with the leaders of the joint police and military team, Operation Vanguard, who are to keep small-scale miners in check. He reports that thousands of illegal miners, popularly called 'galamsey' have defied the ban. Though more than a thousand young men and women have been arrested over the period of the ban, some equipment ceased or burnt, the real impact of the ban is explored in the in-depth three-part series 'The Gold Burden.'