Government has launched a comprehensive review of its national mining policy and legislation as it moves to realign the country's mineral governance framework with new global trends, evolving economic priorities, and lessons from over a decade of implementation.
In a press release issued by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, authorities confirmed that the Minerals Commission-the main regulatory body for the mining sector-has begun a broad stakeholder engagement process to revise both the 2014 Minerals and Mining Policy and the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703).
The current legal and policy frameworks have underpinned Ghana's mining regime for nearly two decades.
However, recent developments-including the 2024 general elections that brought the National Democratic Congress (NDC) back to power with a new policy vision on mining, intensifying global discourse on climate change and the energy transition, and growing attention to artisanal and small-scale mining-have made an overhaul urgent and necessary. "Emerging global trends such as climate change and transition minerals, challenges from implementation over the past decade, and the strategic importance of small-scale mining to Ghana's economy, all demand that we update our approach," the statement said.
