Mining legislation and net returns from mining in Ghana / Thomas Akabzaa -- Guinea: deregulation and its consequences for environmental protection / Bonnie Campbell -- Mali: rewriting the mining code or redefining the role of the state? / Pascale Hatcher -- Madagascar: a mining industry caught between environment and development / Bruno Sarrasin -- Tanzania: liberalisation of investment and the mining sector analysis of the content and certain implications of the Tanzania 1998 Mining Act / Paula Butler.