Popular mining firm, Gold Fields Ghana, has disclosed plans to dismiss about 1,500 of its workers. The massive retrenchment will reportedly take effect this month, December, 2017. Gold Fields’ Vice...
A South African mine suspended dozens of women on Friday after they refused to strip as part of measures to stop workers delivering food to illegal miners, their union said. The women who refused the...
British miner Anglo American has set aside $101 million (87 million euros) to cover potential damages for former South African staff who contracted the fatal lung disease silicosis at work, it said...
Stuntman John Bernecker has died after suffering a fall on the set of The Walking Dead. AMC Networks said production on the eighth season of the hit zombie TV series was “temporarily” shut down...
At the end of a narrow road stands the dilapidated husk of a golf clubhouse, now overrun with tall weeds and creepers. It stands as a reminder of better times for the once booming mining town of...
Veteran Ghanaian actor, Kofi Bucknor is dead. He died in the early hours of Tuesday, May 23, 2017. He was 64. It is unknown what caused his death. He was born in 1953 in Cape Coast. He is known for...
Detention of Aisha Huang; A case of rule of law or hypocrisy Aisha Hueng is the Chinese National at the center of the galamsey controversy I have always maintained from day one that, Government's...
Asante Gold Corporation (CSE:ASE/ FRANKFURT:1A9/OTC:ASGOF) has updated its shareholders with respect to the current status of the West Africa-focused miner’s various projects and option agreements....
Doing away with the Rawlings’ factor in the NDC By Clement Sangaparee Former president Rawlings is anything but happy these past months. He has not been any better in the past though, but recent...
The Sales Area West Africa of global mining equipment giant, Sandvik Mining & Construction, has celebrated a major milestone of working 2.5 million man-hours without a Lost Time Injury (LTI). This...
The Divisional Chiefs of WassaSubri, Wassa Damang, and Huni Valley, have expressed unflinching support for Gold Fields’ Damang Mine, as the company embarks on its next major phase of development at...
An experienced banker-cum-lawyer, Anselm Raymond Sowah, has been appointed the Managing Director of GCB Bank Limited. He takes over from Ernest Mawuli Agbesi who resigned his post last week. Mr....
The Board of Directors of GCB Bank Limited (GCB) has appointed Mr. Anselm Raymond Sowah, a seasoned banker and lawyer as the Managing Director of the Bank. He replaces Mr. Ernest Mawuli Agbesi who...
Financial analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford has called for the legalization of small scale illegal mining commonly called galamsey in Ghana. According to him, it can be captured under a category he...
Financial analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford has called for the legalization of small scale illegal mining commonly called galamsey in Ghana. According to him, it can be captured under a category he...
Civil society group, the Economic Fighters League, has described as abysmal and disappointing, the government’s response to public outcry over illegal mining, which threatening the country’s...
The Ghana Chamber of Mines has contributed GHC2 million towards the Ghana 60 Years On celebration. Presenting the cheque to the Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, Kwame Addo Kufuor,...
MARK Bristow is unlikely to return to Obuasi, the Ghanaian gold mine he has twice stalked in the past 20 years before declining to invest. But he declares a ready interest in Ghana for its...
Expansion projects in the mining sector pushed the country’s gold production to 2,931,131 million ounces in the first nine months of last year, official data from the Minerals Commission has shown....
The Minerals Commission has disclosed to Citi Business News that its projection for gold production this year will be one of the best the industry has witnessed in recent times. According to the...
