Category: Mining

National Security personnel in the Ashanti Region have arrested 15 people suspected of engaging in unauthorised sand-mining activities along the Accra-Kumasi Expressway project.

Accra, Ghana//-The Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ) and the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, have agreed to work towards a formal partnership to improve specialised reporting on mining, forestry and land reform in Ghana.

Abuja, Nigeria// — On Tuesday morning, the operator of Nigeria’s first commercial gold mine, Segilola, Africa Finance Corporation and the Embassy of Sweden will share the opening stage of Nigeria Mining Week 2026.

Resources are not; they become.” This famous observation by economist Erich W. Zimmermann should challenge one of the most deeply rooted misconceptions in Ghana’s development thinking: the belief that our natural resource endowment is the foundation of our prosperity.

Accra, Ghana//-The Minerals Commission has directed Goldcoast GRC Ghana Limited to immediately suspend all activities under its offshore reconnaissance licences pending extensive stakeholder consultations over concerns surrounding the proposed operations.

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), The President of the Republic of Ghana, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, is expected to join his DRC counterpart, H.E. Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo and other mining leaders at the first edition of Makutano Mining in Kinshasa.

Atlantic Lithium Limited, the Africa-focused lithium exploration and development company targeting the delivery of Ghana’s first lithium mine, disclosed that approval has been received from the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) in respect of the proposed acquisition of Atlantic Lithium by Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co., Ltd by way of an Australian scheme of arrangement, pursuant […]

Ghana’s Forestry Commission has arrested 12 suspected illegal miners and impounded three excavators during an operation in the South Formangso Forest Reserve in the Ashanti Region.

Atlantic Lithium’s proposed US$210m takeover by Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt is reopening a larger question surrounding Ghana’s first proposed lithium mine: how much of the economic value created at Ewoyaa will ultimately remain in the country. 

Artisanal cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo risk exposure to uranium while working. Wikimedia Commons Ryan A. Manzuk, University of Wisconsin-Madison The southern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is known as the Copperbelt because of its rich deposits of copper and other minerals.