Ghana recorded a 32% increase in gold production last year, enabling it to win back the top spot from South Africa as the largest gold producer on the continent, the president of the mines chamber ...

Gold prices surge, luring more men to illegal mines Industry contributes to economy but endangers miners Public anger over poisoned water, destroyed forests Gangs, powerful people profiting, say ...

Ghana's president launched a special task force on Tuesday to combat rampant illegal gold mining and smuggling that has long plagued the West African nation. The chronic challenge of illegal gold ...

The Gold Coast is only about as big as Nebraska, however, with only 4,500,000 people, and Nkrumah argued that “regionalism must not replace nationalism.” ...

The extraction of gold in Ghana dates back over a century. Between the 15th and 18th centuries, due to the wealth of mineral assets discovered, the early merchants named the country “Gold Coast”.

According to the Ghana Chamber of Mines (GCM), the country increased its gold output by 32 percent in 2022, up from 2.8 million ounces in 2021 to 3.7 million ounces in 2022.

Ghana is sometimes referred to as Africa’s “Gold Coast,” because of its abundance of natural resources cocoa and gold. But as the price of gold has been soaring, so has the effort to smuggle ...

In just the first half of this year, 36% of the gold produced in Ghana came from legal small-scale mines, with a value of around $1.7 billion, according to Ghana’s Ministry of Land and Resources.

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A newly created regulatory body for gold exports from Ghana announced Monday that foreigners would no longer be allowed to buy or trade artisanaly mined gold in the country ...

Gold has risen about 30% over the last 12 months even as mining majors have sought to diversify away from South Africa, due to problems such as electricity supply, labour relations and diminishing ...