The illegal gold mining industry, known locally as Galamsey, continues to be a significant challenge in Ghana, with ...

In the town of Osino, a three-hour drive ... is devastating," Abaidoo told AFP. Illegal mining contributes 40 percent of Ghana's gold production and employs over one million people, many of ...

A terrible drought took hold of Ghana and gold mining fell into decline ... finally ending up in Kumbi Saleh - the royal town of Ghana. Inevitably traders brought Islam with them.

The gold rush has also attracted private Chinese investors who have descended on Ghana’s mining towns. As gold prices rise amid geopolitical uncertainty, a trickle of news about arrests of ...

Cape Town: Africa’s vast mineral wealth is proving to be a potent engine for economic growth, with nations across the continent forging strategic partnerships to optimize their mining value chains.

Mineral-rich African countries are strengthening cooperation with global partners to optimize the mining value chain, ...

In yesterday’s editorial, this paper highlighted the immense damage gold smuggling does to the economy and recommended that ...

The increase in illegal gold mining – known as ‘galamsey’ in Ghana – has also resulted in the pollution of cocoa-bearing land, said the newspaper. Galamsey’s insatiable rise is intensifying a crisis ...