Burkina Faso’s junta-led government has launched the construction of the country’s first refinery for gold, Burkina’s main mineral resource, officials said. The refinery which was launched ...

West African Resources has achieved a major milestone at its Kiaka gold project in Burkina Faso, successfully producing its first gold bar measuring 5.7 kilograms, or approximately 183.3 ounces—during ...

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.

Burkina Faso’s gold mining industry is relatively new. The first of its 15 industrial mines, all but one of which is for gold, started production in 2007, ...

About 60 people were killed and dozens more wounded on Monday in an explosion at an informal gold mining site in southwest Burkina Faso, state television reported, citing local officials.

Burkina Faso, a significant gold producer, has been combating Islamist militants since 2015. Swissaid reports that the country produced more than 57 tonnes (t) of gold in 2023.

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 forcibly purchased 200 kilograms of gold from a unit of Endeavour Mining Plc as the West African nation faces a worsening food crisis and its military leaders fight an Islamist ...

Mining has started at the GGII deposit at the Karma gold mine. True Gold has advised that the project remains on track for first gold production at the end of the first quarter in 2016.

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso's junta-led government on Thursday launched the construction of the country's first refinery for gold, Burkina's main mineral resource, an Agence France-Presse ...

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 ...