Mining company
Barrick
The operator of Loulo–Gounkoto, the largest industrial gold complex in Mali's western belt, which regained operational control in December 2025 after a two-year confrontation with the state.
Coverage · Central Sahel
No financials and no forecasts. A record carries what a published source states about an organisation, its published facilities and its dated claims, with each claim kept apart by kind. Nothing here is a view on any company.
Industrial organisations 2 records. Each names its published facilities, what it produces or operates, the systems it belongs to, and its dated claims — announcement, target, commissioned, delivered — kept apart. A plate marked “announcements only” carries nothing commissioned or delivered.
Mining company
SOMAÏR
The operator of the Arlit uranium mine — 63.4 per cent Orano, 36.6 per cent the state's SOPAMIN on paper, under Nigerien operational control since December 2024 and declared nationalised in June 2025.
Evidence and grading
- Announcement
- A stated intention. Nothing has been built or delivered on the strength of it.
- Target
- A figure the organisation says it will reach. Not output.
- Commissioned
- A facility or capability a published source records as operating.
- Delivered
- A quantity or item a published source records as received by a named party.
- Confidence
- How well established Vigil considers this assessment to be. It is not a measure of how severe the situation is.