Gold Boom Spurs New African Push to Cash In on its Riches
A truck at a Gold Fields mine in Tarkwa, Ghana, in October 2024.
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A spectacular gold-market boom is spurring a push by African nations — where the ground is rich in the precious metal — to extract more revenue.