Photos: EPA busts 14 containers of illegal mining machines at Tema Port

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has intercepted 14 containers packed with hundreds of Chanfang machines at the Tema Port as it intensifies its crackdown on illegal mining across the country.


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