The Ministry of Energy, Mines and Quarries organized on Monday May 13, 2024 in Gaoua, for the benefit of local authorities and resource persons in the province of Poni, a workshop on mining regulations relating to the management of mining titles and authorizations, the process of collection and distribution of surface taxes.The content of the texts relating to the management of mining titles and authorizations as well as the process of collection and distribution of surface taxes is unknown to local authorities.Therefore, the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Quarries, through the General Directorate of Mining Cadastre (DGCM) organized a workshop on mining regulations, relating to the management of mining titles and authorizations, to the process of collection and distribution of surface taxes.This workshop, held on Monday May 13, 2024 in Gaoua, aims to reassure local stakeholders of the merits of the various principles which contribute to good governance, transparency, but also the promotion of the mining sector.Through this session, the aim was to popularize the content of law n°36-2015 relating to the mining code of Burkina Faso and its implementing texts, to explain the role of local authorities in the process of the granting of authorizations for artisanal exploitation of mining substances and/or quarries as well as the content of the decree of the interministerial order relating to the modalities of distribution of surface taxes for the benefit of local authorities.The workshop brought together, among others, local authorities, notably the Presidents of special delegations (PDS), the general secretaries of town halls, mining promoters, traditional and religious leaders.The participants were thus equipped with mining regulations relating to the management of mining titles and authorizations.According to the Secretary General of the South-West region, Robert Zoungrana, the objective is to allow a good understanding of the contents of the texts relating to the management of mining titles and authoriz ations as well as the process of collection and distribution of surface taxes.For him, the meeting is of 'capital' importance for the South-West which is an area par excellence of artisanal gold mining.Robert Zoungrana is convinced that the workshop will allow participants to be in tune with the texts on mining regulations, especially on the new texts that they do not master.Anything, he continued, which will allow them, in his opinion, to know the advantages of its texts in order to benefit from them, because local authorities need financial resources to operate.For his part, Safiétou Rouamba, lawyer at the DGCM, urged the participants to appropriate these texts and to follow the various communications with attention and interest in order to have 'frank and constructive' exchanges.Ms. Rouamba remains convinced that discussions will result in recommendations for effective management of mining titles and authorizations in Burkina Faso.After the province of Poni, the awareness campaign continued wit h the local authorities of the provinces of Ioba, Bougouriba and Noumbiel.Source: Burkina Information Agency