ASX-listed mining services provider Perenti, through its subsidiary African Mining Services (AMS) has issued a force majeure notice at the Boungou project, in Burkina Faso, and has flagged its intention to exit the Bissa contract, with Norgold, following an attack on staff members in November.
Canadian miner SAMAFO earlier this year reported that 37 workers had been killed and more than 60 others injured on the road to its Boungou gold mine when gunmen ambushed a convoy of busses transporting employees to the mine site.