Tag: Small Scale Mining
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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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🇿🇲 Zambian Women in Mining Push for Fairer Markets and Greater Economic Power
LUSAKA, Zambia — Women in Zambia’s extractive sector are increasingly demonstrating how collective action, technical knowledge and access to markets can transform small-scale mining enterprises and strengthen communities. Among those leading this movement is Aggie, a representative of the Massa Women in Mining Industrial Minerals Cooperative, a women-led enterprise working in Zambia’s mineral sector. Her…
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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…