By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila DAKAR, March 5 (Reuters) - China, the U.S. and other Western governments have mounted an unusually coordinated push to get Ghana to halt a gold royalty hike they say could ...

Ghana rsquo;s economic landscape is entering a pivotal phase as domestic markets, public finance reforms, and global ...

Yet the country plays a central role in the international gold market and has become Africa’s largest producer of the metal.

The Ghanaian government has announced a scheme to buy 127 tonnes of gold from “artisanal” and small-scale mining (ASM) every ...

Gold mining has a long history in West Africa, with economies based on the precious metal. But today, a large chunk of Ghana's gold revenues vanish into the unofficial, and untraceable, trade.The ...

A miner searches for gold at a mine outside Kumasi. Editor at Large Drive an hour south of Kumasi, Ghana’s bustling second city, and before long the dense jungle gives way to denuded hills peppered ...

(Bloomberg) -- There’s no escaping gold in Tarkwa. It’s in the forest. It’s under your feet as you walk the streets of Ghana’s biggest mining town. It’s the economy. Exposed holes in the ground bear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An illegal artisanal miner inspects an excavated rock for traces of gold at the Prestea-Huni Valley Municipal District ...

By Emmanuel Bruce ACCRA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Ghana plans to channel about 127 metric tons of gold per year from artisanal and small‑scale mining (ASM) into official trade under revised sector reforms ...

As gold prices spike across the globe, illegal mining is exploding—and driving the west African country toward ecological collapse. This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & ...