Dompoase mine collapse

On November 12, 2009, a collapse occurred in an illegal, privately owned gold mine in Dompoase, Ashanti Region, Ghana.

[1] Police in the Ghanaian capital of Accra have launched an investigation, and are looking into the possibility of criminal negligence.

He also stated that he believed the government should take more measures to control the activities conducted in the mines.

The men performed the mining and digging, while the women carried out the soil for sorting.

[1][4] A 27-year-old survivor in a hospital claimed that she was the last person out of the mine and stated that everyone would have escaped were it not for a large tree that fell during the landslide.