[Update]Burkina’s gold hunt on the rise
Burkina Faso has recently seen more gold mining due to its relatively stable government, favourable geology, modern mining code and attractive fiscal regime.
Africa
Perseus turns 1M oz. gold project into 7M oz. gold mine in Ghana
Perth-based Perseus Mining (PRU-T, PRU-A) has brought its first West African gold mine to commercial production, pouring 35,801 oz. gold in the fourth calendar quarter of 2011 from the Edikan gold mine in Ghana.
2012 guidance sends Semafo shares down
Montreal-based Semafo’s (SMF-T, OMX-Q) three operating mines in West Africa are expected to produce a total of between 235,000 ounces of gold and 260,000 ounces of gold in 2012, according to company forecasts.
Giustra shell graduate flops on Guinea iron ore assays
They say for every mine successfully put into production, 1,000 other geological prospects are tested and found lacking. Notwithstanding the small probability of achieving just one success over a life-long career in mining, a small group of…
Iamgold sees capex rising
Iamgold (IMG-T, IAG-N) has reported production of 253,000 attributable gold oz. in the fourth quarter of 2011, the company’s best quarter of the year. Full-year production, including the company’s production from discontinued businesses, was…
Kinross tumbles on project delays
Kinross Gold (K-T, KGC-N) fell more than 20% after it said it is reviewing its three major advanced gold projects to improve economics, likely causing months of delay and a goodwill write down of the Tasiast gold project in Mauritania.
Endeavour Mining set for West African growth following merger
Vancouver – Having just completed a merger with Adamus Resources in December, Australia-based Endeavour Mining (EDV-T, EVR-A) now has a two producing mines in West Africa with several advanced projects in the pipeline.
Still lots to learn around Tasiast
With Kinross Gold’s (K-T, KGC-N) Tasiast project generating some negative headlines lately – to say nothing of the negative momentum of its share price – investors may be thinking that the shine is off the Tasiast gold project and gold mining…
Patience and perseverance set to pay-off for Axmin?
Trying to build a gold mine in a sub-Saharan African country that has never had a modern mine is never an easy task. But the process seems to have been particularly arduous on Axmin (AXM-V).
Caledonia sees 102% rise in 2011’s gold output
Caledonia Mining (cal-t, cmcl-l) says total gold production for 2011 more than doubled at its Blanket mine in southwestern Zimbabwe, pushing its stock up nearly 9%.
Infill results drive Hana higher
Shares of Hana Mining (HMG-V) closed 7.2% higher at $1.49 per share after the company reported some of the best intercepts yet of copper-silver mineralization in the Banana Zone at the company’s Ghanzi project in Botswana.
African Metals held up by violence and rain
National elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have held up African Metals (AFR-V) in the development of its Luisha South copper and cobalt project.