Record prices are breathing new life into South Africa’s ailing gold-mining industry.

Much of the continent’s gold is still untapped and require investment to overcome extraction challenges. While in 2026 Africa ...

Gold prices surged past $5,000 an ounce for the first time on Monday, extending a historic rally fuelled by geopolitical ...

KEDOUGOU – The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of the silvery liquid into a plastic bucket of muddy sediment ...

Friar Joseph Kwame Blay, center, a Ghanaian Franciscan Catholic Pries and native of Jema, and members of a local anti-illegal gold mining task force patrol a forest reserve in the Jema community in ...

Zijin Gold International Co, a unit of China’s largest precious metals miner, surged to an all-time high after agreeing to ...

Ghana is preparing to overhaul its mining laws to increase its share of the revenues generated by the surge in the precious metal's price, sparking concern among foreign mining companies in Africa's ...

The perceived governance gaps create a persistent risk premium. Projects must promise higher returns to attract funding.

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...

Regardless of how the gold price is doing, the top gold-mining companies are always making moves. Right now, gold is in the limelight — stimulated by increasing global inflation, geopolitical turmoil ...