Processing promises of gold: A minefield of company-community relations in Burkina Faso

Africa Today

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 22-39

  Luning, Sabine ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD MINE; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINING; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

BURKINA FASO;

EID: 84859342893     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: 15271978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/at.2012.0015     Document Type: Article

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