chanfan
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
chanfan
- A type of floating mining equipment used in parts of West Africa.
- 2016, Katherine V. Gough, Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa, page 190:
- He now operates a chanfan machine during the rainy season and teaches at the school in the dry season when there is no water for processing.
- 2017 December 6, Michael Quaye, “Police destroy galamsey machines on Black Volta”, in Graphic Online[1]:
- The police in Upper West have burnt three chanfan machines and other accessories of illegal mining on the banks of the Black Volta in the Lawra District after operators abandoned the machines at the sight of the security men.