Burkina Faso is one of Africa's biggest gold producers, with many mines run by international firms, as well as informal ones with little oversight or regulation.

Burkina Faso, Africa's fourth-biggest gold producer, has suspended exports of the precious metal from by artisanal mining in a bid to "better organise" the sector, the mines minister announced ...

The mine, which is the company's second gold operation after Sabodala, in Senegal, began processing ore in August and it is expected to produce between 30,000 and 40,000 ounces for the remainder ...

Burkina Faso and the gold mining sector. Burkina Faso shows the typical features of a resource-rich, low-income country in sub-Saharan Africa (The World Bank, 2018). Although gradual urbanization is taking place, the majority of the people continue to live in rural areas where they make their livelihoods by small-scale farming and livestock ...

Located approximately 185 km northwest of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, the Karma mine is a low-grade heap leach operation consisting of several shallow, low strip ratio, free-dig open pit gold deposits. In 2017, an optimization project was completed to lift the stacking capacity.

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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.

Endeavour Mining's operations in Burkina Faso are "unaffected by recent political events", the gold miner said on Monday after the West African nation's second of the year on Friday.

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 gold (465.33 thousand ounces) in 2021. The Essakane Gold Mine is owned by Government of Burkina Faso;Iamgold Corp, and is due to operate until 2027. …

A strong explosion near a gold mining site in southwestern Burkina Faso killed at least 63 people and injured more than 100 others Monday, the national …

Burkina Faso accounts for 2% of global production, with the largest producers being China, Russia, Australia and Canada. Endeavour Mining is one of the leading …

key facts. Ownership: 90% Endeavour, 10% Government of Burkina Faso. Production start date: 2017. Mining Method: Open Pit/Owner Mining. Processing Technology: CIL Plant. …

The government in Burkina Faso has granted a licence to a Russian mining company, Norgold, to operate a new gold mine.. The operating permit is for a period of four years in an area situated in ...

Around 10-30 tonnes of gold is artisanally mined in Burkina Faso with an estimated 1 million people involved in the sector, it said. (By Sofia Christensen; Editing by Jason Neely, Jan Harvey and ...

Youga Gold Mine. The Youga gold mine is situated 180km south-east of Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. Initially owned by Endeavour Mining, the mine was sold to Avesoro Jersey (formerly MNG Gold) in February 2016.

En Français ci-dessous ----- The mining sector in Burkina Faso was previously mostly dominated by small–scale and artisanal endeavours. Small artisanal mining in Kalsaka started in the early 1980s and intensified after the 1984's drought when low harvests forced farmers to diversify their sources of revenues.It was then an activity …

Burkina Faso has acquired 200 kilos of gold from Canadian miner Endeavor, the country's energy and mines ministry announced Tuesday. In a statement, the ministry said the decision to buy gold ...

West African acquired 90% of the Kiaka Gold Project in Burkina Faso from B2 Gold Corp and partner GAMS-Mining F&I Ltd in November 2021. The remaining 10% interest is held by the Government of Burkina Faso. Kiaka is 45km south of West African's flagship Sanbrado Gold Operations in Burkina Faso and about 110km southeast of the capital …

Burkina Faso's mining activities are governed by the 2015 Mining Code (Law n°036-2015/CNT) and associated decrees. Key authorities under the Ministry of Economy and Finance – including the General Tax Directorate (DGI), the General Treasury and Public Accounting Directorate (DGTCP) and the General Customs Directorate …

The nation's Ministry of Mines, Quarries and Energy has said that gold output fell 1.5% in 2023 to a low of 57.3 tonnes. According to GlobalData, Mining Technology's parent company, Burkina Faso was the world's 14th-largest producer of gold in 2022, with production up 7% from the previous year.

Attackers raided the Karma industrial gold mine in northern Burkina Faso in the early hours of Thursday morning, killing one soldier and one mine employee, the company said.

The mine accounted for almost 30% of the 1.1 million ounces of gold produced by Endeavour last year, according to company data. Output at Hounde is expected to drop 7% to 290,000 ounces in 2024.

Burkina Faso: Artisanal Gold Mining in the Context of Violent Insecurity 06 October 2021 Over the last 5-6 years Burkina Faso has become seriously implicated in the rapid and dramatic changes in the geopolitical situation in the Sahel. The country, once reputed for its stability and safety, has come under the spotlight for the number of violent ...

Workers at the Houndé gold mine in Burkina Faso. ( Image courtesy of Endeavour Mining. Work resumed at Endeavour Mining Plc's second-biggest mine Thursday after management reached an agreement ...

The West and South-West of Burkina Faso have a long history of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) (Kiétéga 1983; Werthmann 2007) but further expansion of ASGM dates from the 1980s.Currently, ASGM supports nearly 1.2 million people 1 in a country with a population of 19.7 million, hence it is a significant source of …

Driven by gold mining, Burkina Faso's mining sector accounts for 16% of GDP and 80% of exports, according to the latest EITI data. To increase the sector's contribution to the economy, the government said it will build a refinery to process gold locally. Burkina Faso's President, Ibrahim Traoré, laid the...

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 …

Burkina Faso's Mining Minister Simon-Pierre Boussim poses for a photo, after speaking to Reuters, before the start of the 2023 Mining Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa, February 5, 2023.

When TSX-listed SEMAFO poured first gold at its Boungou mine in Burkina Faso, the company added a second feather to its hat of operating mines, having successfully brought its Mana mine into operation in 2008. This is according to Engineering & Construction VP Sylvain Duchesne.

Burkina Faso has revised its mining code to enable it to take more in royalties in boom times after gold production fell. The West African nation increased the minimum royalty rate for spot price ...