Gold artisanal zone in Burkina Faso. Burkina artisanal >42 t ‘collected’ nationally in 2025
Origin: Burkina Faso
Region: Burkina Sahel (Djibo, Oudalan, Dori)
Site data
- Commodity: Gold
- Tier: Artisanal zone (no reliable production figure; separate marker)
- Status: Active
- Operator / ownership: Informal; JNIM taxes and controls many sites
- Production: Burkina artisanal >42 t ‘collected’ nationally in 2025
- Coordinates: 14.0500, -0.9500 (schematic (Soum–Séno belt between Djibo and Dori; no site points verified))
Security context
- About 800 artisanal sites nationally; >42 t of artisanal gold ‘collected’ in 2025. In the Sahel, Centre-Nord and Est regions JNIM taxes sites (zakat, access and transport levies), uses them as recruitment and logistics hubs and has opened protected forests to mining (ADF, African Security Network, GI-TOC 2025). One unverified estimate puts JNIM’s take at
725 kg/yr ($34M). No site-level coordinates verified, so the marker is schematic. - Disasters: 21 Feb 2022 Gomgombiro (near Gaoua) dynamite explosion, 63 dead; Feb 2023 collapses at Bagassi (14 dead) and in Tuy (9–10).
Sources
- CapMad, Burkina 94 t in 2025: https://www.capmad.com/mining-en/burkina-faso-record-gold-production-of-94-tonnes-in-2025
- ADF Magazine, Sep 2025 (adf-magazine.com)
- Map and tier rule: 03 Resources Map
Relationships
- Taxes and controls sites: JNIM
- Contested by: ISSP
- Context: JNIM-ISSP Oudalan clashes (Oct 2026)
Media
Zoom B: Liptako-Gourma tri-border.