China's Gold hunting abroad suffers setback in Ghana
Many Chinese in Ghana borrowed a lot of money at home to invest in the mining projects.
China suffered it's first major blow from Africa, after the country flooded miners into Africa, as Ghana decided to deport 124 Chinese workers allegedly involved in illegal mining there.
Chinese diplomats were negotiating with Ghana over the detainees, who were being held at an immigration detention center in Accra, the capital, the embassy said.
China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday called on all Chinese citizens in Ghana to abide by local laws.
China's voracious demand for natural resources to fuel its rapidly-growing economy has helped expand its presence in resource-rich Africa. But the detentions in Ghana are a reminder of the challenges of venturing abroad.
Most of these miners were from Shanglin, a State-level impoverished county in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The county contributes around 90 percent of the Chinese miners in Ghana, the second-largest gold producing country in Africa.
Many Chinese in Ghana borrowed a lot of money at home to invest in the mining projects. About 3,000 small gold-mining sites in Ghana have Chinese investors, and each site has an average investment of 2.5 million yuan ($407,200). The Chinese losses in the crackdown are huge, she said.
Ghana is one of the continent's largest gold exporters and authorities there have tried to crack down on illegal mining.
Reports of Chinese workers being caught by Ghanaian authorities on suspicion of such activities have surfaced in recent years, in October last year, one Chinese national died during a raid on illegal gold mines in the Ashanti region.
Ghana said it would temporarily suspend its crackdown on illegal mining and allow Chinese workers to return home if they wish.
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