Tag: gold mining
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🇧🇫 Endeavour Halts Underground Gold Mining at Mana After Access Ramp Subsides in Burkina Faso
Endeavour Mining has suspended underground operations at its Mana gold mine in Burkina Faso after an access ramp partially subsided, restricting access to two underground portals. No injuries were reported as the company conducts a geotechnical assessment and evaluates alternative production routes.
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🇳🇬 33 Young Miners Die in Nigerian Detention Cell as Probe Blames “Cruel and Inhuman” Conditions
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An investigation into the deaths of 33 people arrested over suspected illegal gold mining in Nigeria has blamed severe overcrowding, inadequate ventilation, heat stress and dehydration. Fourteen victims were reportedly minors, with investigators describing the detention conditions as cruel, inhuman and degrading.
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🇨🇳 How Vibrating Placer Gold Screens Can Transform Small-Scale Mining
A vibrating placer gold screening and gravity-recovery system can help small-scale miners process more alluvial material, reduce manual labor, improve screening efficiency and concentrate heavy minerals such as gold. Here’s how the technology can fit into a modern African mining operation.
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🇬🇭 Ghana Rewrites the Rules of Gold: State Participation, Local Refining and a New Mining Value Chain
Ghana is fundamentally reshaping its gold industry. GoldBod’s 30% large-scale mining offtake, new XRF assay regime, mandatory local refining and gold-reserve strategy are placing the state deeper inside the mineral value chain while new mining legislation could further expand domestic processing and state participation.
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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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🇺🇬 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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🇬🇭 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.