Tag: resource sovereignty
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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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🇧🇫 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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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,…