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Title:Liberalisation of the gold mining sector in Burkina Faso
Author:Luning, SabineISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:35
Issue:117
Pages:387-401
Language:English
Geographic term:Burkina Faso
Subjects:mining law
mining policy
gold mining
mining companies
miners
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240802411016
Abstract:Since the liberalization of the gold mining sector in the 1990s, the State of Burkina Faso has the task of allotting exploration and exploitation permits to private companies. International junior companies are exploring vast concessions in Burkina, and publish promising prospects on the internet. Scrutinizing the presence of (inter)national companies both on the web and on the ground, this article shows how a set of concessions constitutes a 'field', defined as a system of social positions structured in terms of power relations. Concessions bring together a wide range of professionals in mining: potential investors, international companies, Burkinabe entrepreneurs and artisanal miners. The article describes how legal distinctions affect the power structure of working arrangements on one particular group of exploration permits in the central part of Burkina, currently held by the Canadian company High River Gold: the Bissa permit Group. It examines what happens on the ground when companies are allotted formal titles, whereas artisanal miners can at best aspire to obtain marginal places for their informal practices. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract]
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