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West Africa Birimian

Rank#3 of 13
Score / MSP / IC8 / 8.5 / 3.9
IC basisFraser 2025: Ghana IAI=55.21 (Sourced; Côte d'Ivoire now West Africa top at 60.92). Burkina Faso + Mali unrated post-coups. Birimian composite=Ghana×0.7=38.6÷10=3.9.
CommodityAu · signal HIGH
Freshnesscurrent Ghana 55.21 Sourced; Mali/Burkina unrated disclosed; Côte d'Ivoire 60.92 noted — inclusion in IC composite remains an open editorial decision. · all provinces

Opportunity (record)

Africa's top gold province. 7,000+ tonnes Au produced. Mali-Burkina-Niger frontier zones have equivalent geology to Ghana but almost entirely unsurveyed since 2021 coups. Security premium suppresses scores but not deposits.

Assets in province (19, record-stated)

AssetStageOperator
AhafoOpNewmont 100%
AkyemOp
BibianiOp
Bissa-BoulyOp
DamangOp
EssakaneOp
HoundéOp
ItyOp
KarmaOp
Loulo-GounkotoOpBarrick (80%) / State of Mali (20%)
ManaOp
ObuasiOpAngloGold Ashanti (90%) / Government of Ghana (10% free-carr
Sabodala-MassawaOpEndeavour 90% / Senegal 10%
SadiolaOp
SyamaOp
TaparkoOp
TarkwaOpGold Fields 90% / Ghana 10%
WahgnionOp
YaouеOp

Province attribution is stated on every asset record (the p field) — record-stated classification, no text inference. Whether record-stated platform classifications carry the formal Sourced label is an open editorial ruling; this page does not claim it. Contrast the country pages, where attribution requires the record to say so.