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Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou Turns to Accra

With its Ivory Coast supplier hit by chronic shortfalls, Burkina Faso is to buy its electricity from Ghana via a new power line.

Subscribers only Energy 31.08.2010

Sahara a State Trader

The Liberia Petroleum Refining Corp called on the services of the Nigerian trader Sahara on July 22 to manage a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.07.2010

Deutsche Bank Tries Again

After failing in its efforts to syndicate a USD 400 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.07.2010

Funding for Puntland Well

The Canadian firm Africa Oil Corp has moved to raise [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.07.2010

Wadi Seeks Arbitrage on Tambao’s Manganese

The current bidding round to award mining rights for the Tambao manganese project (see AMI’s last issue) is being carefully [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.07.2010

Vale & Mitsui Target Tambao's Manganese

Will highly-prized manganese at Tambao -the best in Africa with content of between 52 and 53%, and 20 million tons [...]

Free access Mining 06.07.2010

A Strategic Re-Working of the Mining Code

Burkina Faso’s mines ministry is re-working mining legislation drafted in 2003, a period when there were no industrial-scale mines in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.07.2010

Investor Sought for Baliata's Manganese

The Bureau des Mines et de la Geologie du Burkina [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.07.2010

High River Gold Mines operates Bissa Zandkom

We mistakenly reported in our last issue (AMI 227) that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

One-Stop Mining Agency Under Study

Burkina Faso is to set up a one-stop mining gency [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Phosphates as Key Back-Up for Cotton Industry

Faced with runaway rises in the price of fertilizer, which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.05.2010

Mining Fund on Tap for 2011

Major changes are in the offing with regards mining taxes in Ouagadougou. Under pressure from local operators, Burkina Faso, a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.04.2010

Elie Ouedraogo

The managing director of the Societe d’Exploitation Miniere d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Semafo-Burkina SA) is currently engaged in a USD 9.2 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.04.2010

Leaping Into First Rank of Gold Producers

An overhaul of Burkina Faso’s mining sector that began in 2003 has paid off. Gold production in the country doubled [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.04.2010

Pierre Emmanuel Tapsoba

Holding a PhD in geology from Clermont-Ferrand university in France, Pierre Emmanuel Tapsoba is pursuing his business interests in mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.04.2010

Nana Djeneba

Wearing a double hat as chief of Cluff Mining Burkina and Kalsaka Mining SA, subsidiaries of Cluff Mining SA - [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.04.2010

Major Push in Uranium

Thanks to the European Union's Sysmin fund, Burkina Faso now [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.04.2010

A Train for Tambao in Burkina Faso

The question of financing a 250 km railway linking the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.04.2010

Qatar in Deal with Total

Qatar Petroleum International plans to acquire holdings in the French major's concessions in West Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

A USD 200 Million Grid

At the end of this year the World Bank’s board [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.2010

Semafo Revises Resources Up By 55%

Benoît La Salle, the chairman of Semafo (SMF), was smiling broadly during the Mining Indaba, in Cape Town in early [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.03.2010

Alain Georges Nébié

Sanu Ressources Burkina, a subsidiary of the Vancouver-based Canadian company Sanu Resources, has appointed Alain Georges Nébié as its new [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.03.2010

Adama Barry

Managing director of Nantou Mining which holds the permit to mine zinc at Perkoa, Adama Barry is a key figure [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.02.2010

Nantou Reactivates Perkoa

Adama Barry, director of Nantou Mining, a 90% subsidiary of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.02.2010

How to Pay for WAGP Overruns

The technical hitches that have dogged the West African Gas Pipeline are going to be paid for by consumers and not the operators.

Subscribers only Energy 16.02.2010

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