Last Tuesday, the transition authorities launched the activities of the Golden Hand mine waste treatment plant in Burkina Faso in the industrial zone of Kossodo, the first type of plant in the country and in the West African subregion.

The launch of the activities of the mining waste treatment plant, Golden Hand is, according to the Presidency of Faso, an ambition that has been pursued for more than 10 years. This ambition was to provide the country with a mine waste treatment plant and to promote endogenous development based on the use of local expertise in the transformation of

The Head of State, Captain Ibrahim Traoré announced that “Burkina is the second country in Africa to develop this technology; it is a technology that does not matter”. The establishment of this plant will allow Burkina Faso to treat on site and to have total control of the mining residues that it exported for treatment