Open AccessGold is not for eating
Author(s) -
Bettina Engels
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
commodity frontiers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-2448
pISSN - 2667-243X
DOI - 10.18174/cf.2020a17960
Subject(s) - boom , commodity , capital (architecture) , scale (ratio) , gold mining , political science , economy , development economics , business , history , economics , geography , ancient history , cartography , market economy , geology , oceanography , metallurgy , materials science
This article presents large-scale gold mining and related conflicts in Burkina Faso - a paramount example of the recent commodity boom and its pervasive socio-economic effects. Mobilization around the Houndé gold mine, located 250 km southwest of the capital Ouagadougou, is depicted as an illustration.