West Africa, with an approximate 10,000-metric ton (t) gold endowment, is one of the world’s great gold provinces and the largest Paleoproterozoic gold-producing region. The gold resources are concentrated within the 2250 to 2000 Ma greenstone belts of the Man-Leo shield, forming the southern part of the West African craton. The gold endowment of the Eburnean gold deposits, mainly orogenic type, equals that of the world’s other great Precambrian lode gold provinces. However, the exploration and mining is much less mature in West Africa than it is in other great Precambrian gold provinces, with much of the development throughout the Man-Leo shield taking place during just the past 25 years. The contributions included in this West Africa Gold special issue of Economic Geology collectively document the Paleoproterozoic gold endowment observed in the southern part of the West African craton, from west (Mali, Guinea) to east (Burkina Faso, Ghana), from large to deposit scales, and throughout the Eburnean orogeny. Goldfarb et al. (2017) present a broad-scale overview of the Paleoproterozoic gold endowment of Man-Leo shield, southern part of the West African craton. The Eburnean orogeny generated the world’s most significant Paleoproterozoic gold accumulation in the greenstone belts of Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, and adjacent countries. This paper documents successively the geology of the region, gold deposit distribution in the Man-Leo shield, the …