As gold prices surge, Ghana has introduced a new 'sliding-scale' to capture more royalties from its mined gold. Mining giants ...

Ghana rsquo;s economic landscape is entering a pivotal phase as domestic markets, public finance reforms, and global ...

Yet the country plays a central role in the international gold market and has become Africa’s largest producer of the metal.

A miner searches for gold at a mine outside Kumasi. Editor at Large Drive an hour south of Kumasi, Ghana’s bustling second city, and before long the dense jungle gives way to denuded hills peppered ...

Gold mining has a long history in West Africa, with economies based on the precious metal. But today, a large chunk of Ghana's gold revenues vanish into the unofficial, and untraceable, trade.The ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An illegal artisanal miner inspects an excavated rock for traces of gold at the Prestea-Huni Valley Municipal District ...

ACCRA, Ghana, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Ghana opened its first commercial gold refinery in which the state holds shares on Thursday as part of an effort by Africa's leading gold producer to add value and earn ...

Ghana wants to optimize the benefits from its largely anarchical artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector. For this reason, Africa’s largest gold producer—and the sixth largest in the world—is ...

The newly elected National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration in Ghana inherits not only the reins of government, but also the burden of opacity and incoherence associated with the previous ...