Endeavour confident of reaching FY production, cost targets; Houndé construction on track

West Africa-focused Endeavour Mining produced 310 923 oz of gold in the first six months of this year, a 19% year-on-year increase, mainly as a result of increased output at the Karma mine, in Burkina Faso, and asset optimisation work undertaken at the Tabakoto mine, in Mali, and the Nzema mine in Ghana. The Karma mine produced 56 000 oz of gold in the first half of this year, compared with 12 000 oz in the prior comparable period, while the Tabakoto mine’s output increased to 84 000 oz from 78 000 oz in the prior comparable period.