{"id":13459,"date":"2026-11-09T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/africas-gold-refining-drive-and-the-economics-of-capturing-mineral-wealth-businessday-ng-2\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:00:50","slug":"africas-gold-refining-drive-and-the-economics-of-capturing-mineral-wealth-businessday-ng-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/africas-gold-refining-drive-and-the-economics-of-capturing-mineral-wealth-businessday-ng-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa&#8217;s gold refining drive and the economics of capturing mineral wealth &#8211; Businessday NG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, Africa has supplied the world with gold while much of the value created from it has been captured elsewhere. The metal is mined<\/p>\n<div class=\"aero-paywall-locked\" data-aero-post-id=\"1217681\" readability=\"7\">\n<p class=\"aero-paywall-locked-placeholder\">Subscribe to keep reading<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bday-author-bio\" readability=\"6.9868421052632\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Africas-gold-refining-drive-and-the-economics-of-capturing-mineral-wealth-Businessday-NG-3.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a7cb2a9bffe4fa477d7498a8d3ad725aaeb80d0bed26fd8c611fa8ae5ceab1a3?s=96&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-48 photo bday-author-bio__avatar\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9.3157894736842\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businessday.ng\/author\/faithomoboyed04gmail-com\/\">Faith Omoboye<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faith Omoboye is a foreign affairs correspondent with background in History and International relations. Her work focuses on African politics, diplomacy, and global governance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bday-google-badges\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=businessday.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Africas-gold-refining-drive-and-the-economics-of-capturing-mineral-wealth-Businessday-NG-4.jpg\" alt=\"Add BusinessDay as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKQgKIiNDQklTRkFnTWFoQUtEbUoxYzJsdVpYTnpaR0Y1TG01bktBQVAB?hl=en-NG&amp;gl=NG&amp;ceid=NG%3Aen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Africas-gold-refining-drive-and-the-economics-of-capturing-mineral-wealth-Businessday-NG-5.jpg\" alt=\"Follow BusinessDay on Google News\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Businessday NG<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, Africa has supplied the world with gold while much of the value created from it has been captured elsewhere. The metal is mined Subscribe to keep reading Faith&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}