AFRICA STORIES

No wet-season waiting for WAF

Dual-listed West African Resources will maintain a relentless drilling pace and focus through the central Burkina Faso wet season as it tries to extend and expand the high-grade gold resource at Tanlouka in what company chief Richard Hyde told Diggers & Dealers 2016 delegates was “still the best place in the world to explore for [and develop] gold”.

Snapshot ... Burkina Faso's big wet can bring seasonal perils to drillers

Snapshot ... Burkina Faso's big wet can bring seasonal perils to drillers

Hyde said Burkina had slipped off the radar at Diggers in recent years as (more broadly) West Africa’s investor appeal softened. But the company has been among Australia’s top five share-price movers (up)...

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