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

The debt sale would lift the amount raised for reviving a mine in north-central Quebec to around $1.5 billion.

On Tuesday, Australia said it expects gold to become the country’s second most valuable resource after iron ore this financial year. Australia is the third-largest gold producer in the world, behind ...

The global gold market continues to evolve as production becomes more concentrated among a small number of countries. Despite relatively stable overall output, control over extraction has consolidated ...

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

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 ...

Yoweri Museveni likes to profile himself as Africa’s biggest proponent of value addition. According to the Ugandan president, in power 39 years, Africa has for decades allowed itself to be “robbed” by ...

The Department of Mining has collected a paltry K70 million in mining revenue in the 2025/26 fiscal year, 89 percent down from the projected K665.45 million, data contained in the 2026 Malawi ...

Australia’s role as a resource powerhouse is changing due to global economic forces beyond its control: the fall in oil prices and the record-smashing increase in the price of gold. The country and ...