Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery - Foreign Affairs (2)

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by anonimi: 12:33pm On Sep 29

FSBoperator:
What was so difficult in smelting gold ores to get refined gold ?
They have been doing this for thousands of years .
No high tech required .
Just a blast furnace hot enough to melt the ore and then scrape the impurities that float to the surface .
Why were their gold ore processed outside the country ?

Is that how the gold in Nigeria is dealt with huh

What of our crude oil? Do we also refine it all locally?

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by AngelicBeing: 12:34pm On Sep 29

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by Seeplusplus: 12:34pm On Sep 29

I've always maintained that Africa is not ripe for democracy

We're too uncivilised to practice democracy.

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by Miggs(m): 12:34pm On Sep 29

BarrElChapo:
It’s wrong to say this but African military dictators seem to rule better than elected civilians

Not really...Traore just seems to be somewhat different

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by Fiscus105(m): 12:35pm On Sep 29*

BondRiv:
The U.S. will bring their destruction soon. Evil entity.

But they didnt bring it to Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia or even Thailand.

If you are solidly behind by your people, intruders would find it difficult to penetrate you.

You should channel your wail to your Africa leaders,who are eaten future of their generation unborn of their citizens alongside with their cronies.

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by AngelicBeing: 12:35pm On Sep 29

anonimi:
Is that how the gold in Nigeria is dealt with

What of our crude oil? Do we also refine it all locally?

We refine crude oil locally via Dangote but all the state owned refineries in Nigeria is laden with corruption angry

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by FSBoperator: 12:37pm On Sep 29

Miggs:
All it requires is the willpower.It doesn't matter the amount of money available.Nigeria's leadership lacks creativity and innovation

Gold refining is still as rudimentary as it was 5,000ys ago.

All you need is a blast furnace hot enough to melt the ore and from there scrape the impurities that float to the surface.

The reason the Sahel is what it is today - open desert shrub land , is because the people cut down nearly all the trees that made the place a woodland savannah to fire up the furnaces that dotted every where.

Mansa Musa's gold came from mines across the Sahel which he mined gold using slave labour and he is responsible for why the Sahel is a desert shrub land because he had almost all the trees cut down.

The Sahel used to look more like Abuja vegetation but too much tree felling meant for the furnaces destroyed the fragile eco system.

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by Blunt99: 12:37pm On Sep 29

RollinTNDA:
France and USA right now

They are going to do everything to try and ruin it.

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by Afrojuju2017(m): 12:37pm On Sep 29

DennisEche:
Captain Trairo reminds me of Thomas Sankara.
He gained my respect when he spoke about Saudi bringing Burkans for Quranic class and not medicine or engineering

Traore is not Thomas Sankara, pls let us be measured. Sankara wasn't involved in media suppression and Russian media manipulation.

Sankara didn't have a major insurgency he was failing to address. Sankara was perhaps too naive.

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by Miggs(m): 12:38pm On Sep 29

Seeplusplus:
I've always maintained that Africa is not ripe for democracy

We're too uncivilised to practice democracy.

Africans have always been democratic.The issue nowadays is this western style "democracy" imported to us which we really don't understand because it really isn't of us.Power have and will always belong to the people

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by Afrojuju2017(m): 12:38pm On Sep 29

CaseSensitive:
"Junta leader". Propagandist at work again with this their selective languages. Anyway, may "democracy" never find its way back to Burkina Faso again.

He is a military junta leader he is not democratically elected via universal suffrage

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by Antoeni(m): 12:38pm On Sep 29

Imagine What a Young Responsible Military Leader is Achieving While Our Useless Military Are Foolishly Standing On the Mandate of Dubious Directionless Irresponsible President

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by ceejay80s(m): 12:39pm On Sep 29

U see country wey ready to work?
And sani abacha was murdered because they want to have it all to themselves,
Military rule isn't bad

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by Afrojuju2017(m): 12:39pm On Sep 29

FSBoperator:
What was so difficult in smelting gold ores to get refined gold ?

They have been doing this for thousands of years .

No high tech required .

Just a blast furnace hot enough to melt the ore and then scrape the impurities that float to the surface .

Why were their gold ore processed outside the country ?

There is some refinement required to remove slag and impurities

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by FSBoperator: 12:39pm On Sep 29

anonimi:
Is that how the gold in Nigeria is dealt with

What of our crude oil? Do we also refine it all locally?

What is this one spewing ?

What is Dangote refinery refining is it palm oil ?

And before Dangote refinery or NNPC refineries (which collapsed due to subsidies), small refineries owned by Shell and Mobile were operating in places like Bonny long before the civil war.

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by wonlasewonimi: 12:40pm On Sep 29

Dele Alake left the chat

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by CaseSensitive(m): 12:41pm On Sep 29

Afrojuju2017:
He is a military junta leader he is not democratically elected via universal suffrage

Which part of may "democracy" never find its way back to Burkina Faso again is your brain struggling to process?

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by Miggs(m): 12:41pm On Sep 29

Fiscus105:
But they didnt bring it to Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand

If you are solidly behind by your people, intruders would find it difficult to penetrate you.

You should channel your wail to your Africa leaders,who are eaten future of their generation unborn of their citizens with alongside with their cronies.

The countries you mentioned do not possess the resources those western leeches require to sustain their nations.Where is the quality,cheap uranium available in Singapore and Thailand? Stop selling Africa short

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by FSBoperator: 12:41pm On Sep 29

Afrojuju2017:
There is some refinement required to remove slag and impurities

They scrape it off as it floats to the surface.

Reheat again and then float whatever is left.

The only thing is polishing the gold bars that modern goldsmiths are perfect at.

Other than that, nothing high tech.

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by jojo1415: 12:43pm On Sep 29

Our own here in Nigeria,our. Heartless leaders turn it to their personal fortune and use bandits/insurgency to scare Nigerians and the villagers away...very wicked leaders.

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by ufotunang: 12:43pm On Sep 29

Dricker:
When u see a leader who has vision u go know..here na corruption riddled leaders we get and they no dy hide...

Even one run go France when I'm mates dy new york

.. abi.. even here in Nigeria to rehabilitate refinery is very difficult..our leaders and politicians use the refinery rehabilitation to loot money for the rehabilitation of the refinery..it's a pity

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by ceejay80s(m): 12:44pm On Sep 29

If u have noticed all our military rulers were young and the country was moving forward, even the useless buhari that tinubu brought back to die as a civilian president, was young and active during his military rule...
Just checkout Burkina faso president, see how handsome and young he is ,
We pack old dying ozzing men here that has nothing to ffer than to sick advise from fellow old men as aides to think for them

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by goody234: 12:45pm On Sep 29

Where do people buy ghana gold?

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by OlaMiki: 12:45pm On Sep 29

Tinubu has been doing this and more right from his days as Governor---eg Eko Atlantic, Blue and red train lines/rails, Lagos being made a commercial, tourism, industrial and tech hub but if course tribalism and stvidity wont let you see or reason this

Dricker:
When u see a leader who has vision u go know..here na corruption riddled leaders we get and they no dy hide...

Even one run go France when I'm mates dy new york

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by FSBoperator: 12:51pm On Sep 29

esnbrutality:
This is what leadership is all about.

This leader chased France and Empowered his people and country.

While

In Nigeria a DINOSAUR called TINUBU depends on France to THINK.

Do you also know that French banks were identified by the FG as being used to collect funds for I.P.O.B?

And when the FG under Buhari petitioned this same Macron govt over this, the French said they did not see I.P.O.B as a terrorist organisation and still allowed the accounts to operate until Nigeria banned cash flows from these french banks ?

But today you insult France because Tinubu has a personal friendship alliance with Macron.

Same France that was the only European and major power to recognise and support your Biafra during the civil war.

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by JuanDeDios: 12:51pm On Sep 29

Afrojuju2017:
Traore is not Thomas Sankara, pls let us be measured. Sankara wasn't involved in media suppression and Russian media manipulation.

Sankara didn't have a major insurgency he was failing to address. Sankara was perhaps too naive.

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by JuanDeDios: 12:52pm On Sep 29

Antoeni:
Imagine What a Young Responsible Military Leader is Achieving While Our Useless Military Are Foolishly Standing On the Mandate of Dubious Directionless Irresponsible President

What is he achieving again?

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by BondRiv: 12:54pm On Sep 29

Fiscus105:
But they didnt bring it to Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand.

If you are solidly behind by your people, intruders would find it difficult to penetrate you.

You should channel your wail to your Africa leaders,who are eaten future of their generation unborn of their citizens with alongside with their cronies.

It depends on what the U.S. interests are in those countries. Countries subservient to it are not a threat. Your people can be behind you and the U.S., through the CIA will assassinate you. Go and do some research on this. The U.S. doesn't care about democracy or good governance, so long as it serves their "interests". Only an unformed person will think the U.S. has good intentions for any country. It only wants to maintain its hegemony at all cost. These are all documented. The existence of the CIA alone and their actions ends this whole argument. Go and be informed.

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by TheAlchemist: 12:55pm On Sep 29

sonssyo:
nice from the military president, I wish Naija have one

He should just do quick and handover to a democratically elected leader.

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by TheStoriesOfMan: 12:56pm On Sep 29

Fiscus105:
But they didnt bring it to Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand.

If you are solidly behind by your people, intruders would find it difficult to penetrate you.

You should channel your wail to your Africa leaders,who are eaten future of their generation unborn of their citizens with alongside with their cronies.

You don talknam finish. Nothing to add.

Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by olarent: 12:56pm On Sep 29

I seconded,because he is a performer,unlike useless people we have here.

TheStoriesOfMan:
News I love to hear.

Remove that "junta" tag. Very insulting.

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Re: Burkina Faso Opens Gold Refinery by aloma007(m): 12:57pm On Sep 29

CaseSensitive:
"Junta leader" - Propagandist at work again with this their selective languages.

What Burkina Faso and the Alliance of Sahel States needs now is a very strong military to protect their resources.

May Libya not happen to them. May "democracy" never find its way back to Burkina Faso ever again.

Nigerians are terrible people. Its the same thing Iranians did and the western powers have to tag them terrorists through the back door using Satanyahu scope of religious war sentiments. Every nation has to control their resources independently without foreign interference. Africans watch your back and never support wars irrespective of religious affiliations. Gaddafi was labeled a terrorist and African Christians bought the narrative until social media exposed the truth lately. It will take another long time for Africans to believe Israel and America are telling lies against Iranian leaders to justify killings. Religion is Africans' source of division hence the setback in developing

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