Attempting Social Responsibility at Iamgold's mine, Burkina Faso
— (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 grants permit for new gold mine
— 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 Suspends Export Permits for Small …
— OUAGADOUGOU — Burkinabe authorities has suspended the issuance of export permits for artisanal and semi-mechanized gold and other precious commodities with immediate effect, the governing junta …
Growth in Burkina Faso Gold Mining Fuels Human Trafficking
— 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 ...
DESK REVIEW OF ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE GOLD …
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
Artisanal and small-scale gold mines in Burkina Faso
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Potential health effects of cyanide use in artisanal and small …
Request PDF | On Dec 1, 2019, Astrid M. Knoblauch and others published Potential health effects of cyanide use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Burkina Faso | Find, read and cite all ...
Burkina Faso: Global Gold Expansion and Local Terrains
— 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 …
Children in Burkina Faso Take on Dirty, Dangerous Work of …
— 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 ...
Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking
— 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 ...
Illegal gold mines in the Sahel controlled by terrorist cells
— 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: Childhoods Lost in the Gold Mines
— The return of international mining companies, banned for a time in the 1990s, has boosted production. Still, much of the gold comes from small-scale mines. Small-scale gold mining began here in earnest …
Gold mining blast in Burkina Faso kills 59, injures more than …
— 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 ...
The Cost of Gold in Burkina Faso: Hands and Feet
— 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.
About 60 killed in blast at informal gold mine -Burkina Faso …
— 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.
Gold mining site blast reportedly kills 59 in Burkina Faso
— Burkina Faso's national broadcaster says at least 59 people are dead after an explosion at a gold mining site in the southwest. ... Small gold mines like Gbomblora have grown in recent years, with some 800 across the country. Much of the gold is being smuggled into neighboring Togo, Benin, Niger and Ghana, according to the South Africa …
Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mines in Burkina Faso: …
Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mines in Burkina Faso: Today and Tomorrow. Between 2001 and 2003, the French Geological Survey (BRGM) carried out, in close …
Burkina Faso: Global Gold Expansion and Local Terrains
— 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 …
Kalsaka/Sega Gold Mines, Amara Mining plc/Perseus Ltd, Burkina …
— 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 …
Instability in the Sahel: how a jihadi gold rush is fuelling …
— 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 ...
Burkina Faso Suspends Export Permits for Small-Scale Gold …
— 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."
63 Killed, Dozens Injured After Explosion at Gold Mine in Burkina …
— 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 ...
Russia's Nordgold shuts Burkina Faso mine due to security …
— The Taparko mine was Burkina Faso's first industrial gold mine, launching in 2005 according to Nordgold's website. It is in Namantenga province, approximately 200km (124.3 miles) northeast of ...
Gold mineralisation in the Essakane goldfield in Burkina …
— 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 …
Bissa-Bouly Gold Mine, Burkina Faso
— 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].
Gold Mining in Burkina Faso Becomes Increasingly Dangerous
— "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 ...
Africa
Burkina Faso Scalable Trade in Artisanal Gold (STAG) (2021 – 2023) The STAG project is focused on establishing more resilient, formal, traceable supply chains that maximize the …
Burkina Faso denies favouring Russia's Nordgold over gold mine …
— 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.
Insecurity in Burkina Faso
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 …
Mana mine
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.
Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking
— 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.
Africa Gold Advisory
— The top five producers in 2021 were Ghana, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Sudan, ... the importer can prove the absence of forced labor in its shipment's supply chain. In 2019, gold mined in artisanal small mines in the DRC was subject to a WRO. ... Designation of Venezuela's state gold mine and its president for their …
Explosion reportedly kills 59 near Burkina Faso …
— 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, …
Burkina Faso: Artisanal Gold Mining in the Context of Violent
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 …
Militants increasing attacks on Burkina Faso mines
— 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.