Tag: Gold Exports
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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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🇬🇭 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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Ghana Restructures Gold Trade: Foreign Companies Ordered Out of Small-Scale Sector by April 2025
Accra, Ghana – April 20, 2025 — In a bold move to reshape its gold industry and clamp down on illegal mining, the Republic of Ghana has announced sweeping reforms to its small-scale gold sector. Effective April 30, 2025, all foreign companies involved in the trade of small-scale gold must exit the market. Only state-affiliated…