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

By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Emmanuel Bruce ACCRA, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Ghana will scrap long-term mining investment ...

Illegal mining, widely known as galamsey, continues to pose a serious threat to Ghana rsquo;s environment, public health, and ...

As Ghana moves to overhaul its mining laws to secure a greater share of soaring gold revenues, mining policy strategist and consultant, Ing Wisdom Gomashie, is urging the government to tread carefully ...

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

OR Royalties said it acquired an additional 1% net smelter return royalty covering the Namdini gold mine in Ghana from ...

Early in his eight-year tenure, in 2017, then Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo declared a moratorium on all small-scale gold mining. He established an inter-ministerial committee on illegal mining ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JEMA, Ghana (AP) — As day broke in a remote part of western Ghana, a priest, farmers and other residents combed through the forests, looking for signs of illegal gold mining. They have done this for ...