Illegal gold mining in Africa is out of control. It is poisoning rivers and destroying forests – and nowhere more so than in Ghana. In the village of Nyenase, the practice is also uprooting older ways ...

Ghana, the world's sixth-largest gold exporter and second-largest cocoa producer, is grappling with the damaging effects of ...

The gold mining industry in Ghana is causing environmental damage and pollution, leading to protests and calls for bans on ...

ACCRA, Ghana — A surge in illegal mining that has reduced Ghana’s cocoa production, contaminated water supplies, and stoked food inflation looks set to be among the biggest challenges awaiting the ...

Developed by CITIC Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., China's first domestically produced overflow ball mill with the largest diameter successfully completed its first trial run at a mining site in Nanmutuni ...

Ghana's president-elect, John Dramani Mahama, has pledged to revamp the cocoa sector and reorganise the state-run regulator, ...

Blue Gold, a prominent British mining firm operating the Bogoso Prestea Mines in Ghana with plans to list on the New York ...

But Jinapor’s ministry refuses, opts for GHC10,000 company Blue Gold, a British-owned mining company has demonstrated proof ...

when a group of heavily armed individuals stormed the mining facility, reportedly led by Isaac Ackun, an employee of BCM Ghana Limited, Laurent GABA, an illegal immigrant from Togo, and a Paul ...

Illegal mining also carries an economic cost for Ghana, which is wrestling with more than $30-billion of external debt and secured a $3-billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund last year.

Voting closed Saturday evening in most polling centers throughout Ghana, bringing to an end the presidential and legislative ...