The Chief Executive Officer of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), Justina Nelson, has called on women leaders in the financial services sector to embrace resilience, discipline and innovation as tools to transform adversity into sustainable organisational and national value. She explained that difficult moments should not weaken leaders but rather strengthen their resolve to …
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Julius Daniel Mattai, has called for a new era of sustainable mining investments built on genuine partnerships that align the interests of mineral-producing countries and global consumers. Speaking at MineAfrica’s 27th Annual African Mining Breakfast and the 24th Annual Investing in African Mining Seminar during the Prospectors …
Ghana is not merely fighting illegal mining (Galamsey). It is confronting a quiet national emergency. Our rivers, once sources of life and pride, now run thick with mud and mercury. Communities that depended on clean water wake up to brown taps. Farmers watch their lands collapse into craters. And yet, after years of task forces, …
Ghana has emerged as a global leader in mining labor quality, ranking first in the world for the availability of skilled workers in the sector, according to the 2025 Fraser Institute Annual Survey of Mining Companies. The survey highlights the country’s workforce as a critical factor encouraging investment, even as Ghana’s overall ranking for mining …
Ghana’s reputation as a top destination for mining investment has slipped over the past year, according to the 2025 Fraser Institute Annual Survey of Mining Companies. The country now ranks 53rd out of 68 jurisdictions globally on the Investment Attractiveness Index, down from 46th in the 2024 report. The index, which combines geological potential with …
Rio Tinto has approved Richards Bay Minerals’ (RBM) Zulti South project, ending the suspension that has been in place since January 2020. The investment of approximately R8.5 billion (US$473 million) is aimed at extending the mine’s life to 2050 and ensuring RBM’s operational continuity for years to come. RBM currently operates within the Zulti North …
A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment with hard labour by the Bekwai Circuit Court for his role in a 2022 robbery at a mining site at Manso Akwasiso in the Ashanti South Region. The convict, Dominic Ofori, also known as Fanta, was arrested on 16th February 2026 after years on the …
The death toll from the illegal mining pit collapse at Atta Ne Atta in the Asutifi South District of the Ahafo Region has been revised to nine, according to updated information from authorities, as reported by JoyNews’ Erastus Asare Donkor. Initial reports had incorrectly stated that the incident occurred at Manso Tontokrom in the Ashanti …
A whopping 8,923.8 hectares of the country's forest reserves, equivalent to 12,500 FIFA standard football fields, have been heavily impacted by illegal mining activities, the latest scientific study by the Forestry Commission has revealed. The findings of a national satellite remote-sensing-based verification of mined-out areas in forest reserves, released by the Commission last Tuesday, February …
Natural Resource Governance Expert Dr Steve Manteaw has raised concerns about the potential environmental risks of nano copper technology following the Environmental Protection Authority’s (EPA) pilot application of the intervention to clean the polluted Birim River. His comments come after EPA CEO Prof. Nana Ama Brown Klutse disclosed that about $35 million would be required …
