In small-scale and artisanal mining, mercury is used extensively to extract gold. In this practice, the gold reacts with ...

Gold developer Predictive Discovery is set to build one of the "largest gold mines in West Africa in a generation" following ...

Investors who have been hesitant to explore gold stocks in African markets may be overlooking some of the most compelling ...

Didievi gold resources rise to 989,000 oz, up 119%. • Based on Blaffo Guetto deposit, below 1M oz target. • New drilling set for July to expand potential. Inferred mineral resources at the Didievi ...

In Gold Fields' Tarkwa mine in Ghana, a high-tech cat-and-mouse game is playing out with increasing frequency as record gold ...

This EU4 meeting will be followed by next week’s European summit‚ which might deliver positive results towards dealing with the eurozone debt debacle. “The rand is treading water and taking a breather ...

Montage Gold Corp. (TSX: MAU) is a Canadian-listed company focused on becoming a premier multi-asset African gold producer, with its flagship Koné project, located in Côte d’Ivoire, at the ...

Burkina Faso has completed the transfer of five gold mining assets to the country's state-owned miner, according to a decree published late on Wednesday, finalising a process that began in August ...

While artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is an important source of livelihoods in West Africa, informality leaves it vulnerable to exploitation by criminal and conflict actors. To best ...

Theta Gold Mines chairman Bill Guy said: “The IDC, South Africa’s state-owned institution, has completed a due diligence and approved funding of the project. Its debt funding Loan Facility Agreement ...

On a Saturday night in April 2024, 48-year-old Mustafa Ibrahim had just returned from his local welding workshop in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital. That day, amidst a persistent drop in ...