West African hits gold production guidance for 2025

West African Resources (ASX:WAF) has provided production updates from its Sanbrado and Kiaka gold mining projects in Burkina Faso for Q4 2025, achieving gold production of 112,019 ounces.

Gold sales for the quarter ending in December 2025 were at 105,995 ounces at an average price of US$4,058 ($6,003) per ounce.

The company achieved its 2025 production guidance with production for the full year reaching 300,383 ounces. Full year gold sales as well were at 280,065 ounces, with an average price of US$3,525 per ounce.

At Sanbrado, West Africa commenced mining open pit activities in Q4 2025, resulting in 299,000 tonnes of ore mined at an average grade of 0.8 grams per tonne for 7,927 ounces of gold. Total gold production for 2025 at Sanbrado stood at 205,228 ounces.

At Kiaka, the company ramped up open pit mining in Q4 2025, with an increase of 76% of mined ounces versus the previous quarter. Open pit mining for 2025 saw 6,606,000 tonnes of ore mined at a grade of 0.7g/t for 148,946 ounces of gold.

Executive Chairman Richard Hyde thanks the company’s operational teams for “achieving WAF’s gold production guidance for a fifth consecutive year” at both Sanbrado and Kiaka.

“Combined gold production of 300,383 ounces from our Sanbrado and kiaka gold mining centres for the full year 2025 was well within WAF’s annual guidance of 290,000 to 360,000 ounces, and was a record year of production for WAF.”

West African Resources is a mid-tier gold producer, focusing on producing four million ounces over the coming decade.

Source: https://mining.com.au