Ghana's mining sector has long been a significant contributor to the country's economy. However, the sector's potential to ...

The Ghana National Association of Rock Miners (GNARoM) has appealed to the Government to reconsider its decision to halt the ...

A recent report by the Women Rise Project team has reported that of the 40,000 women employed in artisanal and small-scale ...

The project runs under the PlanetGOLD project, a five-year initiative aimed at reducing the use of mercury in artisanal and ...

The government has initiated moves to stop issuing prospecting licence for small-scale mining as part of measures to overhaul ...

TPNPB-OPM stated that natural resources in Papua are only for the indigenous people. Non-Papuans were asked to leave the gold ...

The Mining in Motion 2025 Summit has announced the participation of Hon. Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Minister for Lands and ...

Seven out of a total of 15 Municipal and District Assemblies (MDAs) in the Upper East Region have large quantities of gold ...

For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today, the precious metal is just as sought after, but the ...

Mining often happens in artisanal and small-scale mining operations that burn gold-mercury amalgams to extract gold particles. Credit: Simon Topp.

Small-scale operations set up primarily illicitly and operated in the shadows use mercury, a substance with neurotoxic ...