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Location: 44 km NE from Djibo, Burkina Faso
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Balaji Group of Companies owns 90% of Société des Mines de Bélahouro SA (‘SMB’), owner of the Inata mine, the remaining 10% is owned by the Burkinabe Government.
On 9 February 2023, the transitional government took the decision to withdraw the industrial exploitation permit for the Inata gold mine of the Belahourou Mining Company (SMB) SA.
On April 25, 2023, the Burkinabe state sold its gold mine Inata to Afro Turk Inata SA.
Since the sale of the asset, Afro Turk Inata SA has not paid the amounts owed to the Burkinabe state. This indicates a failure by Afro Turk Inata SA to fulfill its obligations arising from Article 3 of the transfer agreement. As a result, on March 20, 2024, the Council has decided to revoke the industrial operating permit for the Inata mine from Afro Turk Inata SA. and to hand it over to new investors.
At Inata, mineralisation occurs within a well-defined shear zone marking the boundary between the granitic and volcanic rocks of the Damba-Inata Domain in the west and the Sona Sedimentary Basin in the east. Gold mineralisation occurs within a sub-vertical shear zone that cuts along folded carbonaceous shales that are sandwiched between sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Quartz-feldspar porphyry dykes intrude along the shear zone and are contemporaneous with the later stages of gold mineralisation. Gold mineralisation is always linked to quartz veins (boudinaged, folded or brecciated quartz veins) or disseminated in haematitic alteration haloes around quartz-carbonate-albite veins.The Inata gold deposit is deeply weathered with the base of complete oxidation extending down to depths of 60m. A transitional zone of moderate oxidation extends down to more than 150m depth.
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