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

The Minerals Income Investment Fund has awarded the first batch of beneficiaries of the Women from Mining Communities (WoMCom ...

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 ...

The indebted West African state — which goes to the polls on Dec. 7 — is potentially losing billions from illegal gold mining ...

Rivers poisoned by mercury and cyanide runoff from mining operations are now threatening drinking water supplies for millions ...

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

It is a necessity to hedge declining currencies globally. Mining is an important economic activity in Ghana, contributing significantly to the country's export earnings, revenues, and employment ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.