Mining firms have bailed out the Ghanaian economy on numerous occasions during periods of economic headwinds. Episodes of ...

Ghana wants to benefit from the scramble for lithium but its reliance on mining firms for revenue and expertise weakens its ...

Over the past year, policymakers in several of the continent’s major producers have advanced new mining frameworks centred on ...

Ghana is preparing to overhaul its mining laws to increase its share of the revenues generated by the surge in the precious ...

In a bold move to capitalise on record $4,600 gold prices, Ghana is ending long-standing tax freezes and doubling royalty ...

The Additional Royalty complements OR Royalties’ existing 1.0% NSR royalty over Namdini which was acquired in November 2023; and, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Damien Larbli Tchintchibidja, Vice president of the ECOWAS Commission, left, Ghana's President John Mahama, center and Nigeria ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Catholic bishops in Ghana have again raised alarm over the scale of illegal mining in the country, saying that what should have been a national blessing has turned out to be a ...

As gold prices spike across the globe, illegal mining is exploding—and driving the west African country toward ecological collapse. An unhappy prospect: A group of men engaged in illegal gold mining ...

By Thuso TSEETSE & Reindolf OFOSU-HENEIt is often said that Africa holds close to a third of the world’s known reserves of the minerals essential to the energy transition and to emerging industrial ...

Sustainability in Ghana’s mining sector is often discussed in terms of environmental protection and economic returns.

Ghana is Africa's top gold producer and the world's sixth highest. Yet illegal mining, locally called galamsey, is destroying ...