Category: Minerals
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🇯🇲 Ghana–Jamaica Trade Push Revives Bauxite Link and Opens New Atlantic Commercial Corridor
Accra/Kingston — Ghana and Jamaica are moving to turn decades of Pan-African solidarity into a more concrete economic partnership, with bauxite and aluminium, shipping, ports, investment, health, aviation and agriculture emerging as key areas of cooperation. The renewed relationship gained momentum in 2026 following the resumption of the Ghana–Jamaica Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation (PJCC)…
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🇬🇠Ghana Moves to End Raw Gold Exports as New Refining Rules Take Effect
By Panafrican.email News Desk Ghana, Africa’s leading gold-producing country, has tightened controls on gold exports as the government moves to retain more value from the country’s mineral wealth through domestic processing. Under a new directive from the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), unrefined gold doré can no longer be approved for export under the affected trading…
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🇿🇲 Zambian Women in Mining Push for Fairer Markets and Greater Economic Power
LUSAKA, Zambia — Women in Zambia’s extractive sector are increasingly demonstrating how collective action, technical knowledge and access to markets can transform small-scale mining enterprises and strengthen communities. Among those leading this movement is Aggie, a representative of the Massa Women in Mining Industrial Minerals Cooperative, a women-led enterprise working in Zambia’s mineral sector. Her…
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Liberia’s Lithium Moment: New Survey, Global Interest, and the Test of Resource Sovereignty
Liberia is moving closer to the center of Africa’s critical-minerals conversation. A new China-funded national geological survey, described as the country’s most comprehensive mineral mapping effort in more than 50 years, has renewed attention on lithium, cobalt, uranium, manganese, neodymium, nickel, zinc, silver, and other strategic minerals. For a country historically known for iron ore,…
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🇬🇠Ghana’s Galamsey Crisis: How Illegal Gold Mining Is Poisoning Rivers, Destroying Forests, and Fueling Public Outrage
Ghana’s Western Region has become the epicenter of one of the country’s most pressing environmental and public health crises—illegal gold mining, locally known as galamsey. Once viewed by many as a means of survival and economic opportunity, galamsey has evolved into a nationwide challenge that is devastating forests, contaminating rivers, and threatening the livelihoods of…