— (en français ci-dessous) The Essakane gold mine, owned by Canadian mining company 'IAMGOLD' is the largest of Burkina Faso's mining operations. Located in the north of Burkina Faso on the Niger and Mali borders, the mine covers a territory of 100 square kilometers.
— 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.
We discussed regional differences in the articulation between goldmining and violence and worked on proposals how the ministry of mines can be more actively involved in …
— The attacks extend towards hundreds of small-scale mines in Burkina Faso alone. Around 2,200 possible informal gold mines were identified in a government survey of satellite imagery in 2018.
— I thought about the coarse, hand-made tools – the shovels, hoes and picks – that the African miners use, and it came to me that the bare hands of children are mining tools, too, responsible for who knows how much of the ore brought out of the small-scale gold mines of Burkina Faso. As a photographer, I often look to the eyes to find the image.
— According to Burkina Faso's Minister of Mines, Oumarou Idani, much of the country's illegally mined gold is transported to Togo, from where it makes its way to the UAE. Togo functions as a smuggling hub; Sahel-mined gold is refined in the small costal state then exported on, with the UAE the primary recipient.
— 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, a few years after the government ...
As artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso has increased in recent years, so have violent attacks by non-state armed groups. The assumption that there is a natural causal link between the two is, however, too simplistic. The escalating violence should rather be seen as a result of long-term trends, such as state disengagement, a growing dependence on …
Directrice exécutive chez Chamber of Mines of Burkina Faso · Experience: Chamber of Mines of Burkina Faso · Location: Ouagadougou · 313 connections on LinkedIn. ... "The programme is focused on sharing resources and costs and increasing opportunities for small- and medium-sized enterprises to conduct business with industry," the company ...
— Burkina Faso is home to several major international gold mines as well as hundreds of smaller gold mining sites — like Gbomblora — that are often run informally with neglect of regulations, AP ...
SMALL-SCALE GOLD MINING (ASGM) IN BURKINA FASO ARTISANAL MINING AND PROPERTY RIGHTS (USAID AMPR) TASK ORDER UNDER THE STRENGTHENING TENURE AND RESOURCE RIGHTS II (STARR II) IDIQ JUNE 2019 ... BUMIGEB Bureau des Mines et de la Géologie du Burkina CAR Central African Republic
— 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.
— Russia's Nordgold is shutting down its Taparko mine in Burkina Faso and calling force majeure, citing the deteriorating security situation in the West African country, according to a statement ...
— 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 …
— At least nine people were killed when an artisanal gold mine collapsed in Burkina Faso's western Tuy province on Tuesday, the head of the artisanal mining association for the province said.
2 Small-Scale Mining in Burkina Faso Contents Summary 3 Definition of Small-Scale Mining 4 ... • Small-scale mining: 'small mines equipped with a minimum number of fixed installations using semi-industrial or industrial methods based on a primary discovery of a deposit'. The definition also states that the mine should not have the capacity to
— Burkina Faso Suspends Export Permits for Small-Scale Gold Production 21 February 2024 11:37 Reuters; Burkina Faso's military leader Ibrahim Traoré speaks to journalists in the capital Ouagadougou, on October 1, 2023. ... Burkina Faso's military junta said it looks to "clean up the sector."
— Industry experts said this gold likely ends up in Dubai. The government of Burkina Faso estimates the illicit market produces more than $400 million worth of gold a year. Salofou Trahore, general director for Burkina Faso's regulatory body for small-scale mines, said he was unaware that women were being exploited at the sites.
— Outre les mines de Bissa-Bouly, Nordgold gère trois autres mines d'or dans le pays, la mine de Taparko était la première à être inaugurée. Le gouvernement du Burkina Faso assure la sécurité des sites miniers et s'assure de maintenir les manifestants à distance des sites d'exploitation et procède à des arrestations [10, 11].
— Small-scale miners now produce 20-50 tonnes of gold in Mali, 10-30 tonnes in Burkina Faso and 10-15 tonnes in Niger, according to a 2019 International Crisis Group report, employing more than 2m ...
— An explosion near a gold mining site in southwestern Burkina Faso has killed 59 people and injured more than 100 others. According to witnesses and the national broadcaster, the explosion, …
— Gunmen attacked a convoy of Iamgold Corp vehicles travelling to the Essakane gold mine in Burkina Faso on Tuesday, wounding one police officer before being repelled by the convoy's security detail ...
— Workers labor in a gold mine in Bouda, Burkina Faso. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The terrorists' tactics range from providing paid protection to small mines to all-out invasions of mines and mining towns. …
— 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...
— "Burkina Faso is now one of the most important gold producing countries in Africa, and the large number of investors who've come in over recent years and the large number of mines that have ...
This is complicated further by the relatively small size of the market economy. THE MODERN GOLD RUSH. ... Since its inception in 2011, the Chambre des Mines du Burkina (CMB) has acted as a key constituent behind the institutional force of the country's mining sector. Encompassing over 50 members, the CMB unites all the sector's major ...
— …move seen as bold step towards resource sovereignty. Kaieteur News – 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. Lilium will transfer ownership of Boungou and Wahgnion to the west African state, which …
— The West African craton is known for its structurally hosted Au deposits in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Niger. The Essakane goldfield in northeast Burkina Faso has produced 1 606,000 oz of gold since 2010 from the Essakane Main Zone.The Essakane goldfield is made up of several exploration and artisanal sites that …
— The U.N.'s international labor organization estimates that children account for 30 percent to 50 percent of the small-scale miners working in the African Sahel region, which includes Burkina Faso ...
— In Burkina Faso, gold production has more than doubled in recent years. ... much of the gold comes from small-scale mines. Small-scale gold mining began here in earnest in the 1980s as droughts ...
Burkina Faso Mana exploration The primary objective is to increase the mine life to 10 years, and Endeavour sees considerable additional opportunity remaining with the five year discovery target for Mana now set for 1.0 to 1.5 million ounces of Indicated resources at a discovery cost of less than US$30/oz.
— Once here, they were sent to work off debts in squalid conditions at or near small-scale gold mines. While both Burkina Faso and Nigeria have signed the U.N. Convention Against Transnational ...
— In this photo taken Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, a miner stands on a mound of dirt to make a phone call, at a gold mine in Bouda, Burkina Faso. A growing number of small-scale gold miners are out of work in Burkina Faso as jihadists try to seize control of the country's most lucrative industry.
— To develop a trusted, professional, and reliable artinasal and small-scale gold mining sector. Working with international partners, governments, and mining sector professionals to engage and improve the lives wellbeing of the worlds ASGM communities. ... Burkina Faso. AGC Burkina Faso is proud to work on multiple projects supporting the …
— A blast in a Burkina Faso gold mine has killed 59 people and injured more than 100 others, The Associated Press reported on Monday. ... Mining experts have said that small-scale mines have fewer ...
