Ghana's battle with illegal smallscale mining | Africa at LSE
15/07/2019 · In May 2019, Ghana is rumoured to have recently overtaken South Africa as Africa's largest gold producer. Gold represents up to 49 per cent of the country's exports, contributing billion to Ghana's 59 billion GDP. With gold trading at over 1, an ounce in mid 2019, four times the value twenty years ago, it represents a ...