Global gold prices are surging, surpassing $2,700/oz this month, already up by more than a fifth compared with 2023. In this landscape, gold hubs across the world are working to formalise their ...

Later, geological processes – like continental growth (accretion) and heat or pressure changes (metamorphism) released this gold – forming deposits that could be mined. Where in west Africa is ...

It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in search of gold. The first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry, the famous Portuguese patron ...

Glassell Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Thomas Bowdich, a British envoy, was one of the first Europeans to venture into the interior of Africa’s fabled Gold Coast. Entering the town of ...

Gold is one of the resources at the heart of these tensions. West Africa has been a renowned gold ... on subjective judgment ...

Gold is one of the resources at the heart of these tensions. West Africa has been a renowned gold ... on subjective judgement to create reliable maps and the need to spend money prospecting ...