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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 ...
West African Resources began gold production early at Burkina Faso’s Kiaka mine, set to yield 234,000 oz/year. The project aims to reverse declining national output, forecast to rise to 65 tonnes by ...
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 ...
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.
Mali has completed its takeover of the Yatela and Morila gold mines abandoned by their previous owners, the government announced at the weekend, but questions remain over how any untapped value can be ...
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.
Item 1 of 3 An excavator clears out rocks into a dumper at the gold mine, operated by Endeavour Mining Corporation in Hounde, Burkina Faso February 11, 2020. Picture taken February 11, 2020 ...
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’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, ...
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 ...