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Endeavour Goes to Court to End Strike at Burkina Faso Gold Mine
- Workers at the Hounde gold mine downed tools on Jan. 21
- Unit of London-based miner says stoppage is “illegal”
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An Endeavour Mining Plc unit filed a lawsuit in a bid to end a strike in Burkina Faso that’s disrupted operations at the company’s second-biggest gold mine.
The subsidiary that runs the Hounde project initiated proceedings in a Burkinabe court on Jan. 26 to “highlight the illegality” of the “unplanned work stoppage” that began five days earlier, according to an internal company memo sent to employees on Saturday.