This shows the existing land use and land cover of the Northwest region of Ghana prior to exploration and illegal mining activities in the area. The 1990 land cover data would instigate keen observations about the trends of land cover and land use change and the dynamics of the change, which could be associated to either mining or unsustainable local exploitation of naturals resources in the area. Thus, the data gives a three decade landscape outlook of the area, which could be used as baseline data for monitoring and validating the environmental responsiveness of both small-scale and large-scale mining activities in the Northwest Mining Region of Ghana. EPSG:3857