Burkina Faso’s SONASP collects 40 tonnes of gold in 2025
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on La Nouvelle Tribune
The National Precious Substances Company collected around 40 tonnes of gold in 2025, compared with 457 kilograms in 2022, including 30,962.17 kilograms in the second half of the year. The mining sector brought the state nearly 2,500 billion CFA francs, according to Minister Yacouba Zabré Gouba, who said national production reached 94 tonnes.
Burkina Faso’s National Precious Substances Company (SONASP), a state-owned company responsible for collecting and marketing precious metals, collected around 40 tonnes of gold in 2025, compared with 457 kilograms in 2022. The figures were presented by Yacouba Zabré Gouba, Minister of Energy, Mines and Quarries.
In the second half of 2025, SONASP collected 30,962.17 kilograms of gold, of which 22,801.26 kilograms came from artisanal mining, or 73.64% of the total. The Burkinabè government aims to strengthen oversight of gold collection and marketing, particularly gold extracted by artisanal operations.
