SECACO, Burkina Faso (AP) — For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with ...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - 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 ...

View a collection of Larry C. Price’s images from Burkina Faso. Children caked in dust and sweat climb in and out of 150-foot mine shafts with dexterity. Their small bodies operate makeshift grinding ...

Gold production in Burkina Faso declined last year as deteriorating security conditions in the West African nation forced some mines to shut. An Islamist insurgency in the Sahel, a semi-arid region ...

The government of Burkina Faso has completed the nationalisation of five gold mining assets, transferring ownership to the state-owned miner, Société de Participation Minière du Burkina (SOPAMIB), ...

April 25 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalise on ...

The feasibility study completed on the Karma project supports a heap-leach mine scenario from currently defined openpit deposits containing 949 000 oz of probable mineral reserves. The heap-leach pad ...

For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 ...

Burkina Faso gold industry set to decline, CEO says Militant attacks have intensified this year Russia's Nordgold shut Taparko mine in April OUAGADOUGOU, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A gold mining boom in ...

Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalise on record-high gold prices to ...