Tag: African Mining
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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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🇺🇬 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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🇿🇼 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…
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🇿🇦 Stilfontein: The Miners Trapped Underground and the Rescue That Came Too Late
A deadly confrontation in Stilfontein exposed the human cost of South Africa’s illegal gold-mining economy, as hundreds of miners became trapped underground during a government crackdown. Survivors recount hunger, fear and a desperate struggle for rescue—raising difficult questions about mining, poverty, criminal networks and the future of Africa’s mineral wealth.
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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Opens First Gold Refinery in Push for Economic Independence
Burkina Faso has opened its first national gold refinery in Ouagadougou, marking a major step in its effort to process more of its mineral wealth domestically. RAFFINOR-BF will initially refine 164 tonnes of gold annually, with plans to reach 515 tonnes, as the country seeks greater control over its gold value chain and broader economic…
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🇩🇰 The Ambassador: A Controversial Journey Into Africa’s Diamond Trade
The Ambassador takes viewers into the Central African Republic’s diamond trade through Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger’s unconventional undercover investigation. Although the film is not set in the DRC, its questions about mineral access, foreign investment, diplomacy and African resource value chains remain relevant to today’s Congo mining debate.
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🇪🇬CAMRED III Brings Africa’s Mining, Investment and Technology Leaders to Cairo
CAMRED III opens in Cairo October 5–7, bringing African mining leaders, investors, government institutions, technology providers and mineral-sector organizations together around critical minerals, smart mining, beneficiation, investment and African value chains.