Ghana’s Black Volta gold mine standoff: How a $100m transaction ended up in London’s courts

In the far northwest of Ghana, near the border with Burkina Faso, sits one of West Africa's most promising undeveloped gold deposits.

It has never poured a single ounce commercially.

Yet the Black Volta Gold Project has become the centre of a cross-continental legal fight, one that now runs through an international arbitration tribunal in London, the High Court of England and Wales, and the Ghanaian government.

Here is what JoyNews Research knows about the dispute so far, what each side claims, and where the matter stands.

The question of who is ultimately right is one the courts have yet to finally answer. ...