Miners Face a New Push for Local Control of Africa’s Gold
Top gold producer wants to avoid having locals priced out of bids for mines.
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A three-decade-old Ghanaian mine owned by Gold Fields has become a bellwether for the West African nation’s ambitions to boost local ownership in a key sector.