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A golden future for West Africa

Two years ago, the mining industry was in a state of widening realisation that the bubble had well and truly burst and the sector was free-falling in the kind of commodity bust that must follow the scale of boom it enjoyed.

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Kinross Gold's Tasiast mine in Mauritania is a success story for West Africa

Having accepted its fate, the industry last year began licking its wounds and wondering how long it might be before the sun would shine again, with the consensus suggesting some blue sky might appear

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