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  {
    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:commodity-dependence-context:001",
    "statement": "Ghana operates in a regional context where Middle and Western Africa show very high commodity-export dependence according to UNCTAD's latest commodity-dependence assessment window.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:region:middle-western-africa",
      "entity:country:GH"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "GH",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "inferred",
      "score": 0.7,
      "rationale": "UNCTAD regional statistics are verified for the region; applying them as Ghana corridor context is inferred, not a Ghana-specific verified measurement."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "fresh"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:unctad:commodity-dependence-2025",
        "source_class": "institutional_report",
        "locator": "https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/ditccom2025d3_en.pdf",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "archive citation group [S2] — regional commodity dependence"
      }
    ],
    "contradictions": [],
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  },
  {
    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:minerals-commission-exists:002",
    "statement": "Ghana maintains a public Minerals Commission institutional presence that publishes sector information relevant to licensed mineral operations.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:org:ghana-minerals-commission",
      "entity:country:GH"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "GH",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "verified",
      "score": 0.85,
      "rationale": "Official public institutional homepage is independently inspectable; claim limited to existence/public presence, not license validity of any counterparty."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2026-10-12T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "fresh"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:minerals-commission-public",
        "source_class": "official_public",
        "locator": "https://www.mincom.gov.gh/",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "official public home"
      }
    ],
    "contradictions": [],
    "replay": {
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  },
  {
    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:lbma-not-title:003",
    "statement": "LBMA Good Delivery / market-integrity references do not constitute Ghana land title, export authorization, or Minerals Commission licensing proof for a counterparty.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:org:lbma",
      "entity:country:GH"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "GH",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "inferred",
      "score": 0.85,
      "rationale": "Negative claim about Ghana's licensing scheme, inferred from (a) Act 1140's licensing provisions (ss.26–28) naming only the Gold Board as licensor and (b) LBMA's self-described market-integrity scope. Downgraded from verified per hostile replay (B1): a boundary inference is not an independently inspectable fact, and internal synthesis must not carry a verified lane."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2027-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "fresh"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:lbma:good-delivery",
        "source_class": "market_feed",
        "locator": "https://www.lbma.org.uk/good-delivery",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "LBMA Good Delivery programme scope"
      },
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:act-1140:goldbod-text",
        "source_class": "legal_reprint_secondary",
        "locator": "workstreams/wedge-30d/claims/sources/documents/superlawgh-act-1140-reprint.html",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T10:56:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "ss.26–28: licence granted by the Gold Board; qualification provisions — LBMA appears nowhere in the licensing scheme"
      },
      {
        "source_id": "source:archive:fable-benchmark-2026-07-11",
        "source_class": "internal_synthesis",
        "locator": "archives/fable-chat-2026-07-11/reports/01_GTCX_Research_1_to_10_Benchmark_Report.md",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "forbidden boundary: not regulator/registry/bank/certifier (posture context, non-load-bearing)"
      }
    ],
    "contradictions": [],
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      "inputs_hash": "seed:lbma-boundary"
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  },
  {
    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:capital-markets-shallowness:004",
    "statement": "African public equity markets remain concentrated and relatively shallow versus global totals per OECD Africa capital-markets reporting — increasing the value of provenance-bound market intelligence over dashboard spectacle.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:region:africa-capital-markets"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "AF",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "inferred",
      "score": 0.75,
      "rationale": "OECD report supports concentration/shallowness; the product implication for Terminal is an inference for GTCX Research design."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "fresh"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:oecd:africa-capital-markets-2025",
        "source_class": "institutional_report",
        "locator": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/africa-capital-markets-report-2025_7d26e1d3-en.html",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "archive citation group [S2]/S8]"
      }
    ],
    "contradictions": [],
    "replay": {
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  },
  {
    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:gold-spot-shelf-sparse:005",
    "statement": "The local protocols/commodity-trade/Gold Spot shelf exists as a research placeholder but does not yet contain a decision-grade claim library for Ghana ASM gold counterparty trust.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:internal:protocol-gold-spot",
      "entity:corridor:gh-asm-gold"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "internal",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "inferred",
      "score": 0.9,
      "rationale": "Local filesystem inventory of protocols/commodity-trade/Gold Spot; treat as inferred until a formal inventory witness is sealed."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2026-08-12T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "fresh"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:protocol:gold-spot-shelf",
        "source_class": "derived_inference",
        "locator": "protocols/commodity-trade/Gold Spot",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "shelf path present; sparse content"
      }
    ],
    "contradictions": [
      {
        "claim_id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:commodity-dependence-context:001",
        "status": "deferred",
        "note": "Not a logical contradiction — marks coverage gap: regional context exists while local protocol shelf lacks decision objects."
      }
    ],
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  },
  {
    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:act-1140-establishes-goldbod:006",
    "statement": "Ghana enacted the Ghana Gold Board Act, 2025 (Act 1140), establishing the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) to oversee, monitor and undertake the buying, selling and export of gold and other precious minerals (long title; object at s.2). Its sole-authority provisions bite on non-large-scale gold — see claim 007.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:org:goldbod",
      "entity:law:gh-act-1140",
      "entity:country:GH"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "GH",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "verified",
      "score": 0.95,
      "rationale": "Long title and s.2 object verified verbatim against the sealed legal reprint; official goldbod.gov.gh PDF sealed with SHA-256 for integrity (image scan — no text layer); Ghana Mission Dubai page corroborates. ASM-focus gloss removed per hostile replay (D4) — segment emphasis lives in claim 007's sole-authority provisions."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2027-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "fresh"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:goldbod:act-1140-official-pdf",
        "source_class": "official_public",
        "locator": "https://goldbod.gov.gh/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GHANA-GOLDBOD-ACT-ACT-1140.pdf",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T09:31:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "sha256:ec3c65c1c66601d1201f70a360dfc66ba9d0f172f73676e26851a5af04f88810"
      },
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:mfa-dubai:exporting-gold",
        "source_class": "official_public",
        "locator": "https://dubai.mfa.gov.gh/Exporting-Gold-From-Ghana.aspx",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "Ghana Gold Board Act, 2025 (Act 1140); GoldBod statutory mandate"
      },
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:act-1140:goldbod-text",
        "source_class": "institutional_report",
        "locator": "https://superlawgh.com/ghana-gold-board-act-2025-act-1140/",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "s.1 Establishment of the Ghana Gold Board"
      }
    ],
    "contradictions": [],
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    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:goldbod-sole-asm-trade-export:007",
    "statement": "Under Act 1140, GoldBod has the sole authority to purchase and sell gold produced by miners other than large-scale miners, and to export gold produced by mining companies other than large-scale mining companies.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:org:goldbod",
      "entity:law:gh-act-1140",
      "entity:corridor:gh-asm-gold"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "GH",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "verified",
      "score": 0.93,
      "rationale": "Sole-authority language grounded in the official Act 1140 PDF (goldbod.gov.gh, sealed with SHA-256); reprint and MFA corroborate. Not a substitute for case-level license verification of any counterparty."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2026-12-31T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "fresh"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:goldbod:act-1140-official-pdf",
        "source_class": "official_public",
        "locator": "https://goldbod.gov.gh/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GHANA-GOLDBOD-ACT-ACT-1140.pdf",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T09:31:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "sha256:ec3c65c1c66601d1201f70a360dfc66ba9d0f172f73676e26851a5af04f88810"
      },
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:act-1140:goldbod-text",
        "source_class": "institutional_report",
        "locator": "https://superlawgh.com/ghana-gold-board-act-2025-act-1140/",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "sole authority to purchase and sell gold produced by miners other than large-scale miners; export gold other than large-scale"
      },
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:mfa-dubai:exporting-gold",
        "source_class": "official_public",
        "locator": "https://dubai.mfa.gov.gh/Exporting-Gold-From-Ghana.aspx",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "GoldBod central institutional authority for gold trading value chain / ASM focus"
      }
    ],
    "contradictions": [],
    "replay": {
      "compiled_at": "2026-07-12T09:00:00Z",
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  },
  {
    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:foreign-buyer-mission-first:008",
    "statement": "The Ghana Mission in Dubai publishes guidance advising prospective foreign buyers intending to purchase or export gold from Ghana to contact the nearest Ghana Mission or Consulate as the official first point of contact before commercial engagement. Not shown to be MFA-wide policy — one mission's page.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:org:ghana-mfa",
      "entity:actor:foreign-buyer",
      "entity:country:GH"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "GH",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "verified",
      "score": 0.85,
      "rationale": "Directly stated on the Ghana Mission Dubai page, sealed as an HTML snapshot with SHA-256 (live page intermittently unreachable). Scoped to that mission's published guidance — generalization to MFA-wide policy would be an inference this claim does not make."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "fresh"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:mfa-dubai:exporting-gold",
        "source_class": "official_public",
        "locator": "workstreams/wedge-30d/claims/sources/documents/mfa-dubai-exporting-gold.html",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T10:57:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "sha256:5f41b10737cf1c721cc2faa165eb34ce0f114e349ce0f4778d6d9d52f8329553 — 'The Ghana Consulate serves as the official first point of contact'"
      }
    ],
    "contradictions": [],
    "replay": {
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      "compiler_version": "wedge-30d/v0",
      "inputs_hash": "seed:mfa-mission-first"
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  {
    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:goldbod-not-minerals-commission:009",
    "statement": "GoldBod's trading/export authority under Act 1140 does not eliminate the Minerals Commission as a relevant mining-sector institution; counterparty trust still requires mining-license and environmental posture checks beyond GoldBod trade licensing alone.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:org:goldbod",
      "entity:org:ghana-minerals-commission",
      "entity:law:gh-act-1140"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "GH",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "inferred",
      "score": 0.8,
      "rationale": "Act 1140 lists Minerals Commission among collaborating/relevant institutions and MFA describes regulated multi-institution framework. Inference: trade authority ≠ mining title/license authority. Critical for Terminal trust UX — do not collapse institutions."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2026-12-31T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "fresh"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:act-1140:goldbod-text",
        "source_class": "institutional_report",
        "locator": "https://superlawgh.com/ghana-gold-board-act-2025-act-1140/",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "Minerals Commission as relevant/collaborating institution; Board composition includes Minerals Commission representative"
      },
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:minerals-commission-public",
        "source_class": "official_public",
        "locator": "https://www.mincom.gov.gh/",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "Minerals Commission public institutional presence"
      },
      {
        "source_id": "source:archive:fable-benchmark-2026-07-11",
        "source_class": "institutional_report",
        "locator": "archives/fable-chat-2026-07-11/reports/01_GTCX_Research_1_to_10_Benchmark_Report.md",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "forbidden: do not become regulator/registry; evidence substrate only"
      }
    ],
    "contradictions": [
      {
        "claim_id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:goldbod-sole-asm-trade-export:007",
        "status": "open",
        "note": "Not a hard contradiction — tension between sole trade/export authority and multi-institution licensing. UI must show both without collapsing into one 'licensed' badge."
      }
    ],
    "replay": {
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      "inputs_hash": "seed:goldbod-vs-mincom"
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  {
    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:asm-export-surge-2025-news:010",
    "statement": "Secondary reporting attributes a large 2024→2025 increase in recorded ASM gold export volumes to GoldBod formalisation / reduced smuggling rather than a sudden production shock — but this volume claim is not yet independently verified in this pack against primary official statistics.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:org:goldbod",
      "entity:corridor:gh-asm-gold",
      "entity:metric:asm-export-volume"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "GH",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "inferred",
      "score": 0.5,
      "rationale": "Secondary news summary of a technical report. GoldBod Q2 statutory report (sealed 2026-07-12) confirms the formalisation mechanism exists but does not verify the specific 63.6t→103t series — upgrade path is annual/Q-series statutory volumes. Must not drive counterparty trust decisions."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "aging"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:news:myjoy:goldbod-asm-exports-2025",
        "source_class": "news_secondary",
        "locator": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/goldbod-credited-with-major-formalisation-of-small-scale-gold-exports/",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "reports ASM exports 63.6t (2024) → 103t (2025); formalisation narrative"
      }
    ],
    "contradictions": [
      {
        "claim_id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:goldbod-sole-asm-trade-export:007",
        "status": "deferred",
        "note": "Institutional reform claim is stronger than the quantitative export-surge claim; do not let the weaker numeric claim inflate confidence on the stronger institutional claim."
      }
    ],
    "replay": {
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      "inputs_hash": "seed:news-asm-surge"
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  },
  {
    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:goldbod-licensing-tiers:011",
    "statement": "GoldBod launched a national gold-buying licensing regime in Q2 2025 with a structured tier system for local gold buyers — Tier 1, Tier 2, Self-Financed Aggregators, and Aggregator Licensed Buyers — per its first statutory report under Section 42 of Act 1140.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:org:goldbod",
      "entity:law:gh-act-1140",
      "entity:corridor:gh-asm-gold"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "GH",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "verified",
      "score": 0.92,
      "rationale": "Q2 statutory report establishes the tier regime; Q3 (577 licences: Tier 2 432, Tier 1 123, SFA 22) and Q4 (154 licences: Tier 2 90, Tier 1 39) — both sealed — confirm the taxonomy persists through the latest published quarter. Buyer tiers are a sub-taxonomy of the ten s.27 categories (claim 015)."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2027-01-12T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "fresh"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:goldbod:q2-statutory-report-2025",
        "source_class": "official_public",
        "locator": "https://goldbod.gov.gh/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Ghana-Gold-Board-Q2-Statutory-Report-April-to-June-2025.pdf",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T09:34:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "sha256:b0a9ab9cbf9c5590e3738761b73bf7c3322be9580f2a62b25e6812bfaa4abf81 — tier regime launch"
      },
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:goldbod:q3-statutory-report-2025",
        "source_class": "official_public",
        "locator": "workstreams/wedge-30d/claims/sources/documents/Ghana-Gold-Board-Q3-Statutory-Report-July-to-September-2025.pdf",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T11:22:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "embedded layer text: '577 licences… Tier 2: 432 Tier 1: 123 Self-Finance Aggregators: 22 Suspensions: 2 Revocations: 1'"
      },
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:goldbod:q4-statutory-report-2025",
        "source_class": "official_public",
        "locator": "workstreams/wedge-30d/claims/sources/documents/Ghana-Gold-Board-Q4-Statutory-Report-October-to-December-2025.pdf",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T11:22:00Z",
        "excerpt_or_hash": "pdftotext: 'GoldBod processed and issued 154 licenses… Tier 2: 90 Tier 1: 39'"
      }
    ],
    "contradictions": [],
    "replay": {
      "compiled_at": "2026-07-12T09:35:00Z",
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  },
  {
    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:licence-requirement-offence:012",
    "statement": "Act 1140 s.26(1) requires a GoldBod licence for any business or related activity in the gold trading and marketing industry (s.26(2) enumerates aggregation, buying, selling, assaying, export, and more); engaging without a licence is an offence under s.26(5). Separately, s.63(1)(f) makes it an offence to buy gold from a person not issued a GoldBod licence, penalized under s.63(2) at 50,000–200,000 penalty units and/or 5–10 years imprisonment.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:org:goldbod",
      "entity:law:gh-act-1140",
      "entity:corridor:gh-asm-gold"
    ],
    "jurisdiction": "GH",
    "confidence": {
      "lane": "verified",
      "score": 0.9,
      "rationale": "Section-accurate cites verified verbatim against the sealed legal reprint (s.26(1), s.26(2), s.26(5), s.63(1)(f), s.63(2)); official PDF sealed for integrity (image scan — no text layer). Open tension with s.67(1) recorded in contradictions."
    },
    "freshness": {
      "observed_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
      "expires_at": "2026-12-31T00:00:00Z",
      "staleness_class": "fresh"
    },
    "provenance": [
      {
        "source_id": "source:ghana:act-1140:goldbod-text",
        "source_class": "legal_reprint_secondary",
        "locator": "workstreams/wedge-30d/claims/sources/documents/superlawgh-act-1140-reprint.html",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-07-12T10:56:00Z",
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        "claim_id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:licence-requirement-offence:012",
        "status": "open",
        "note": "Internal statutory tension: s.67(1) permits a licensed person to purchase from 'the Gold Board, a miner or a person licensed by the Gold Board' — miners are Minerals-Commission-licensed, so the flat rule 'buying from a GoldBod-unlicensed person is an offence' is not unambiguous where the seller is a licensed miner. Requires counsel-grade resolution; do not present as settled."
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    "statement": "Act 1140 s.63(1)(e) prohibits fronting or conniving with a foreigner or a company to acquire a licence under the Act, and the Act separately addresses collusion with a foreign buyer to bypass regulatory oversight.",
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    "id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:repeal-transition:014",
    "statement": "Act 1140 s.75(1) repeals the PMMC Act, 1989 (PNDCL 219) and sections 6, 97 and 104 of the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703) as pertains to gold — while s.75(2) preserves the Mines Minister's power to licence large-scale mining companies to purchase and deal in gold; s.78 transfers PMMC rights, assets, liabilities and staff to the Gold Board. The GoldBod↔Minerals Commission boundary moved at commencement; pre-Act gold-dealing arrangements cannot be presumed to survive.",
    "entity_refs": [
      "entity:org:goldbod",
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    "jurisdiction": "GH",
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      "rationale": "s.75(1), s.75(2) and s.78(1)-(2) verified verbatim against the sealed legal reprint; official PDF sealed for integrity. The closing sentence ('cannot be presumed to survive') is the direct consequence of the repeal provisions, scoped to a presumption — not a determination about any specific licence."
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        "locator": "https://goldbod.gov.gh/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GHANA-GOLDBOD-ACT-ACT-1140.pdf",
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        "claim_id": "claim:gh:asm-gold:goldbod-not-minerals-commission:009",
        "status": "open",
        "note": "Refines 009: the institutional split is real but the boundary MOVED at commencement (s.75 repeals Act 703 gold provisions; s.75(2) carve-out for large-scale). What survives at MinCom for gold is narrower than a static two-lane picture suggests — render 009 and 014 together."
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    "statement": "Act 1140 s.27(1) establishes ten licence categories the Gold Board may issue: Aggregation, Buying, Refining, Export Partnership, Storage, Importation, Transhipment, Transportation, Smelting, and Fabrication; s.27(2) requires the Gold Board to publish terms and conditions of the categories in the Gazette.",
    "entity_refs": [
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        "excerpt_or_hash": "s.27(1): '(a) an Aggregation Licence; (b) a Buying Licence; (c) a Refining Licence; (d) an Export Partnership Licence; (e) a Storage Licence; (f) an Importation Licence; (g) a Transhipment Licence; (h) a Transportation Licence; (i) a Smelting Licence; and (j) a Fabrication Licence' · s.27(2): 'The Gold Board shall publish in the Gazette the terms and conditions of the categories of licences.'"
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