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), ...

June 12 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso has completed the transfer of five gold mining assets to the country's state-owned miner, according to a decree published late on Wednesday, finalising a process that ...

Perenti has secured a contract, valued at approximately A$1.1bn ($707.3m), to deliver underground mining operations at the Siou and Wona areas of the Mana complex in Burkina Faso. Perenti’s joint ...

On a Saturday night in April 2024, 48-year-old Mustafa Ibrahim had just returned from his local welding workshop in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital. That day, amidst a persistent drop in ...

April 29 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso plans to take control of more foreign-owned industrial mines, its prime minister said, as the West African nation seeks a bigger share of revenue from its resources.

Barely launched, already jolted. Two months after pouring its first gold bar at Burkina Faso‘s Kiaka mine, Australia’s West African Resources (WAF) received an unexpected letter in late August.

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Eight soldiers were killed on Wednesday by a blast in the troubled north of Burkina Faso, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore announced. "I have just learned that eight Burkinabe soldiers died after ...

Burkina Faso is poised to increase its industrial gold mining this year as a project by Mauritius’s Soleil Resources International Ltd. rises to full production and a new mine by Australia’s West ...

Daily Dispatches By the end of 2025, six of Burkina Faso's 15 active industrial gold mines were majority-owned by Burkinabe companies, according to specialised mining outlet Mines Actu Burkina. Three ...

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