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No Gold for Kalsaka (2019)

Name: No Gold for Kalsaka
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-12-08T13:50:48+01:00

Documentary | 80 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 80 minuten

Alternative title: Pas d'Or pour Kalsaka

Country: Burkina Faso / Germany

Directed by: Michel K. Zongo

IMDb score: 7,3 (25)

Releasedate: 15 November 2019

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No Gold for Kalsaka plot

After the government of Burkina Faso begins issuing mining permits in 2000, the gold rush strikes. In 2008, a British mining company opens the first open pit mine in Kalsaka, excavating soil vital to the villagers. Soon the first kilo of gold is mined from a stock of at least 18 tons. Jobs for the villagers, scholarships for their children, money for the state treasury and development aid for the next ten years: the people in Kalsaka are promised mountains of gold. But after six years, only a mountain of gold has been taken from them and they are left penniless on polluted soil.