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African Mining Unions Move to Own the Minerals They Extract
3+ hour, 46+ min ago (241+ words) African mineworkers are no longer content to simply dig out the continent's wealth for others. The umbrella body representing mining unions across Africa has announced a strategy to move unions from labour representation into direct ownership and management of mining…...
African Mineworkers Convene in Accra to Assert Control Over Continent's Critical Minerals
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (320+ words) Delegates from more than a dozen African countries opened a three-day continental mining labour summit in Accra on Thursday, with calls for unified action to ensure that Africa's rapidly rising mineral wealth translates into genuine economic gains for the continent's…...
Bogoso-Prestea Mine Catchment Divisional Chiefs petition President Mahama for a new investor to replace Heath Goldfields LTD.
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (367+ words) Divisional Chiefs from the Bogoso'Prestea Mine Catchment Communities have formally petitioned President John Dramani Mahama, urging his intervention to secure a financially capable investor to take over operations of the troubled Bogoso-Prestea Mine. In a petition dated March 18, 2026, addressed to…...
Geologist Backs Sliding Royalty as Gold Prices Surge
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (362+ words) A University of Ghana geoscientist has thrown his weight behind Ghana's newly enacted sliding-scale mineral royalty regime, arguing that the country must capitalise on record gold prices while market conditions remain favourable. "We have to be inward-looking and take what…...
IEA Slams Plan to Borrow for Salaries While Minerals Sit Idle
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (286+ words) The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has sharpened its critique of Ghana's resource governance, warning that the government's decision to reduce the Growth and Sustainability Levy (GSL) on mining companies contradicts the stated goal of capturing greater value from the…...
Bogoso-Prestea Mine Caught Between Chiefs, Contractors and Cash
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (486+ words) Bogoso-Prestea Mine Caught Between Chiefs, Contractors and Cash'NewsGhana The Bogoso-Prestea Mine in the Western Region has become a battleground of competing interests, with divisional chiefs calling for Heath Goldfields Limited's (HGL) removal just as local contractors publicly back the company…...
A Rocha Ghana Warns NAIMOS Not to Rest on Arrest Numbers
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (266+ words) A leading environmental group is urging the National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) not to treat its recent arrest figures as a marker of success, saying the agency is still operating well below its true capacity in the fight against…...
Gold Fields Confirms Damang Handover on Track for April 18
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (270+ words) Gold Fields has issued a formal update confirming that the transfer of the Damang mine to the Government of Ghana will proceed as scheduled on April 18, 2026, with the South African miner saying all preparations are advancing in line with the…...
Akuffo Calls Mining Fiscal Reforms "Kwaku Ananse Mathematics"
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (243+ words) Former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo has dismissed the government's recently enacted mining fiscal amendments as internally contradictory, saying raising royalties while simultaneously cutting a key development levy amounts to moving money between pockets rather than capturing genuine value for Ghana....
Illegal Mining Now a Serious Human Rights Concern — Deputy CHRAJ Commissioner
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (329+ words) The Deputy Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mrs. Mercy Larbi, has revealed that the impact of illegal mining has extended beyond environmental degradation to serious human rights concerns, including threats to life, dignity, and…...