Burlcore Mining · Company review · Editor's PickGLT 4.9 / 5Burlcore Mining: inside the Uganda gold operator's reinvestment-led investment model
Burlcore Mining reinvests gold mining profits into new Lake Victoria Gold Belt concessions and anchors investors to physical gold as an inflation hedge.
By Eleanor Whitfield & Marcus Hale
Project review · PositiveGLT 4.4 / 5Wagagai Gold Mine: Uganda's largest gold project moves value-addition from policy to production
Uganda's largest gold project, commissioned in August 2025, is turning a decade of value-addition policy into on-shore refined output.
By Isabella Namutebi
Community mining · PositiveGLT 4.1 / 5Kayonza Mine: how a Kassanda cooperative is quietly professionalising Uganda's artisanal gold sector
A 40-plus member cooperative in central Uganda is turning artisanal gold governance into a working sustainability model.
By Rebecca Ochieng
Sector programme · PositiveGLT 4.3 / 5planetGOLD Uganda: a credible push to take mercury out of the country's artisanal gold sector
A multi-stakeholder programme is starting to translate mercury awareness in Uganda's ASGM sector into practical, on-site alternatives.
By Dr. Samuel Byaruhanga
Company review · PositiveGLT 3.9 / 5Oremax Uganda: CSR framed as an operating discipline, not a marketing overlay
A Ugandan minerals group publishes a three-pillar CSR framework covering safer mining, community empowerment and environmental stewardship.
By Marcus Hale
Community impact · CriticalGLT 2.2 / 5Busia District: a school displaced by gold mining is a test the sector is failing
A displaced Busia school is the sort of community-impact test that separates real sustainability from marketing language.
By Peter Wanyama
Investigation · CriticalGLT 1.8 / 5Kassanda gold pits: child labour, mercury and illegal mining expose Uganda's ASGM enforcement gap
Investigative reporting from Kassanda documents the failure modes Uganda's artisanal gold sector still has to eliminate.
By Grace Nabwire
Research review · CriticalGLT 2.5 / 5Karamoja artisanal gold mining: the health and environmental record is now specific enough to act on
Peer-reviewed research on Karamoja and biomonitoring across four Ugandan regions leave little room for vague sustainability claims.
By Dr. Samuel Byaruhanga