Category: Mining
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🇬🇭 World Bank Targets Fivefold Increase in Critical Minerals Financing as Ghana Emerges in Global Supply-Chain Strategy
For Ghana, the opportunity is potentially significant—but the strategic objective should extend beyond digging minerals out of the ground. The central question for the next five years may be whether Africa can use the new wave of critical-minerals investment to build industries around its resources, rather than simply supplying the resources to industries elsewhere.
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🇬🇭 Ghana Deploys Military Engineers to Restore Tano Nimri Forest Reserve After Galamsey Damage
Ghana has begun restoring 50 hectares of the Tano Nimri Forest Reserve degraded by illegal mining, bringing together GoldBod, the Ghana Armed Forces and the Forestry Commission in one of the country’s most significant forest-reclamation initiatives.
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🇹🇿 Minexpo Tanzania 2026 to Bring Global Mining Technology and Heavy Machinery to Dar es Salaam
Minexpo Tanzania 2026 will bring mining companies, technology providers, equipment manufacturers and investors from more than 20 countries to Dar es Salaam from 28–30 October, showcasing the machinery and innovations shaping Africa’s mining future.
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🇬🇭 Beyond the Gold: Inside the Royal Court of 11th-Century Ghana
The medieval Ghana Empire was far more than a kingdom of gold. An 11th-century account by al-Bakri offers a rare glimpse into its royal court, political authority, trans-Saharan trade and religious diversity — while archaeology continues to challenge historians to separate evidence from assumption.
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🇺🇬 How to Own a Gold Mine in Uganda: A Practical Guide for African Investors
Uganda is attracting growing interest from African and international mining investors. Here is a practical guide to the legal route for establishing, acquiring or investing in a gold-mining operation in Uganda.
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🇱🇷 Liberia’s Mining Question: Why Isn’t More Iron Ore Being Processed at Home?
Liberia’s iron-ore industry raises a fundamental question about the country’s economic future: should Liberia remain primarily a mineral exporter, or use its resources to build domestic processing, steel manufacturing and broader industrial capacity?
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🇬🇭 Ghana’s Gold Rush: Who Pays the Price for Mineral Wealth?
Ghana’s Birim Valley sits at the intersection of mineral wealth, livelihoods and environmental pressure. From diamonds to gold, informal and illegal mining — widely known as galamsey — provides income for communities while raising serious concerns about land degradation, water pollution and mineral smuggling. Ghana now faces the challenge of building a formal, traceable and…
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🇬🇭 🇲🇱 🇧🇫 Ghana’s $20 Billion Gold Boom: Why Accra Is Pulling Ahead of Mali and Burkina Faso
Ghana’s gold industry is entering a new era. With nearly six million ounces produced in 2025 and gold export earnings reaching about $20.2 billion, Accra is using GoldBod to tighten control over the gold trade, formalise artisanal mining and retain more mineral wealth inside the country. Ghana’s strategy now places it in direct comparison with…
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🇿🇼 Zimbabwe Mining: From Gold and Platinum to Lithium and a New Era of Mineral Industrialization
Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Mining, African Mining, Gold Mining, Lithium, Lithium Mining, Platinum, Platinum Group Metals, Chrome, Ferrochrome, Coal, Diamonds, Critical Minerals, Mineral Resources, Mining Industry, Mining Investment, Mineral Beneficiation, Mining Technology, Artisanal Mining, Small Scale Mining, Great Dyke, Great Dyke Zimbabwe, Manhize Steel, Zimbabwe Economy, African Minerals, Battery Minerals, Energy Transition, Mining Africa, Natural Resources, Industrialization,…
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🇿🇼 The $1.2 Billion Question: Zimbabwe, Gold, Political Power and the ‘Gold Mafia’
Al Jazeera’s Gold Mafia investigation exposed allegations surrounding Zimbabwe’s gold-smuggling networks and a proposed operation to move as much as $1.2 billion in cash into the country. A recorded conversation involving Uebert Angel and First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa became one of the investigation’s most controversial episodes, raising questions about political access, diplomatic privileges, gold laundering…