A gold mining boom in Burkina Faso over the last decade propelled Boukary Diallo from being a vendor on a market stall to running a meat business supplying a mine near Ouahigouya, his home town in ...
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Burkina Faso has struck a deal to nationalise two gold mines for about $80mn that London-listed Endeavour Mining agreed last year to sell to Lilium Mining for more than $300mn.
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Burkina Faso has struck a deal to nationalise two gold mines for about $80mn that London-listed Endeavour Mining agreed last year to sell to Lilium Mining for more than $300mn.
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The Artisanal Gold Council has increased our programming to support the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector in Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal.The regional program will build local capacities to address the growing issues surrounding ASGM including the use of mercury and cyanide, regularization of the informal economy, health and ...
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The socioeconomic, legal and political conditions for artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso have changed several times since the 1980s. Three key phases can be observed: 1) from 1986, when the parastatal gold buying firm CBMP (Comptoir Burkinabè des Métaux Précieux Métaux Précieux, Burkinabe Precious Metals Counter CBMP) was created, to 1995-96, when …
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Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world, suffering from recurring droughts. It was drought which first forced families into gold mining in 1980, and the gold rush spread quickly. Gold has now become Burkina Faso's number one export commodity, and small-scale mining sites are to be found throughout the country,
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Burkina Faso last year revised its mining code to enable it receive more in royalties during boom times. The country, also suspended mineral exports by small-scale miners last month.
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gold mining has expanded and is now thought to account for a third of total gold production in the Sahel—and this is in a region with a long history of industrial gold mining (ICG, 2019). The gold mining sector in the region is still largely informal and comprised of diverse actors playing different roles, most of whom are artisanal miners.
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The work stoppage at the Hounde mine in Burkina Faso has had "significant financial impacts" on the company. Gold Futures $ 2953.2 / ozt -0.08% Micro Gold Futures $ 2953.2 / ozt -0.12%
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Burkina Faso is the fourth-largest producer of gold in Africa, producing a combined total of approximately 93.4 tons of gold in 2020. [2] Currently worth approximately $4.9 billion USD, gold produced in Burkina Faso every year makes mining a highly lucrative market, which has recently been under attack by jihadist and militant organizations looking to finance their …
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Rich gold reserves in these West African nations have long attracted investment; however, the sector's development has been hobbled by ongoing political instability and illegal mining activities – particularly in Burkina Faso and Mali – meaning development is often curtailed before governments can reap the full benefits.
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The 2021 State Department Human Rights report noted the existence of the worst forms of child labor in relation to gold mining in, among other places, Burkina Faso, CAR, Cote d'Ivoire, the DRC, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. In Mali, according to a March 2020 report from the Ministry of Environment, approximately 9% ...
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A new gold mine in Burkina Faso, with an annual production capacity of 234,000 ounces, will start operations in the third quarter of 2025. West African Resources confirmed …
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An introduction to our Houndé mine in Burkina Faso. Houndé mine. Play. Our Ity mine . Our Ity mine. Introducing our Ity mine in Côte d'Ivoire. Ity mine. Play. ... The Lafigué mine poured first gold at the end of Q2 2024 and is Endeavour's newest cornerstone mine. The goal at Lafigué is to produce over 200koz per year at an industry ...
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Investments in mining in Burkina Faso have increased by 800% over the last 10 years because of the rise in prices of the main metals. As a result, the number of industrial mines ... semi-mechanized gold mines, 28 artisanal gold mining authorizations, and 26 industrial quarries. A study mapping the main artisanal gold mining sites, produced in ...
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Workers at Endeavour Mining's (TSX, LON: EDV) Houndé mine in Burkina Faso, the company second-biggest gold operation, have walked off the job on Tuesday, blocking the access road to the site.
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Russia's gold mining firm Nordgold has closed its Taparko mine in Burkina Faso and declared force majeure over security concerns in the country, reported Reuters citing a company statement. Nordgold subsidiary Société des Mines de Taparko (SOMITA) director-general Alexander Hagan Mensa was cited by the news agency as saying that the gold ...
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A key characteristic of gold mining in Burkina Faso—as is also the case in many other African countries such as Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania (cf. Jønsson and Fold, 2011)—is the tradition of artisanal gold mining, which began long before colonisation (see Werthmann, 2007). Many states reformed their mining laws ...
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Burkina Faso has been experiencing a mining boom since the early 2000s, mainly in gold but also in the zinc and manganese sectors. Today, the country is Africa's fifth-largest gold producer. In 2020, the Burkinabe mining sector underwent a significant reorganization, with Endeavour acquiring Canadian mining companies SEMAFO and Teranga.
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27 August 2024 – Endeavour Mining plc and Lilium Gold are pleased to announce that they have signed a settlement agreement, involving the State of Burkina Faso ("the State"), in respect of the divestment of the Boungou and Wahgnion mines.
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Africa Gold Advisory – 27 June 2023 top five producers in 2021 were Ghana, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Sudan, according to official industry figures.4 While West Africa has emerged as a leading source of gold, countries elsewhere, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Tanzania, also
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Mining process on a small-scale gold mine site in Burkina Faso A mining process, involving mercury extraction, in smallscale gold mine sites includes typically eight operations. The gold ore is Wrst extracted from the mine and then crushed in order to get more small pieces (Fig. 1a). The grinding of the gold ore transforms it in a Wne powder.
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Burkina Faso Boungou gold mine far from recovery. The mine bought by Simon Tiemtoré's Canadian company Lilium Mining in 2023 has ground to a halt because of ongoing …
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Essakane Gold Mine in Oudalan, was the largest mine in Burkina Faso, producing approximately 15.87 million metric tons per annum (mmtpa) of Run-of-Mine (ROM) and primarily produced …
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The project's owner, West African Resources, recently upscaled its expected output for the mine. A new gold mine in Burkina Faso, with an annual production capacity of 234,000 ounces, will start operations in the third quarter of 2025. West African Resources confirmed that its Kiaka mine (currently 50% developed), can deliver up to 258,000 ...
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Burkina Faso has nationalised two gold mines for a sum of around 80 million dollars, ending a legal row between rival companies Endeavour and Lilium Mining. As part of …
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The Inata Gold Mine is 90% owned by Avocet and 10% owned by the Government of Burkina Faso. The mining code of Burkina Faso entitles the state to a 10% ownership of a mining operation on a free carry basis. Avocet acquired its interest in Inata through its acquisition of Wega Mining in June 2009. The mine was commissioned that year and first ...
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Burkina Faso's mining sector is likely to play a key role in the country's economy in the near future with the gold mining industry all set to expand. This year, the country's mining sector will be able to generate an increased revenue of about $2 billion from the $1.4 billion revenue in 2011.
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Virtual Policy Note Launch. Together with members of our Gold Matters project Cristiano Lanzano and Alizeta Ouedraogo, we published a policy brief to analyze the current violence in longer histories of state-society engagements in Burkina, and to nuance perspectives on the relation between insecurity, jihadism, criminal networks, and gold mining.
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FILE - Informal gold miners are seen taking a break from work under the midday sun at an artisanal mining site near Dano, southern Burkina Faso, May 5, 2020.
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