A Ritual GeologySet against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africas goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the worlds oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africas orpaillage. Establishing African miners as producers of subterranean knowledge, Robyn dAvignon uncovers a dynamic ritual geology of techniques and cosmological engagements with the earth developed by agrarian residents of gold bearing rocks in savanna