Author(s)

Michelline Marie Regina Kansole^1*, Moussa Compaore², Anselme Bagoro³, Maryam Tamboura³, Kpiebote Palenfo³, Seta Naba⁴

¹University of Fada N’Gourma, Laboratory of Geoscience and Mining Environment (LaGE), Fada N’Gourma, Burkina Faso.
²University Joseph KI-ZERBO, Laboratory of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry of Natural Products (LABIOCA), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
³University Joseph KI-ZERBO, Promotion Center for Development and Environmental Protection (CEPAPE), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
⁴University Joseph KI-ZERBO, Laboratory of Geoscience and Mining Environment (LaGE), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

The Pissy granite quarry of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso exists since 2006, and it is a source of financial incomes for many poor families working there. The Problem-In-Context framework (PiC), lead the current study to understand better the quarry exploitation and structuration. Different motivations guide the quarry actors. Through those motivations, different solutions were suggested, mainly the shutdown of the quarry as the best way to decrease the impacts of the quarry exploitation on the environment, particularly regarding the air pollution and the loss of biodiversity in the area. The Pissy granite quarry is not recognized by the country’s legislation and this study is presenting the site organization. They are three main actors on the site and the tertiary actors are the ones having more incomes comparing to the primary and secondary actors of the chain. There is a need to evaluate the shell life of the quarry if the shutdown is not the final option chosen by the country. This evaluation should be a way to restructure the field and to have more incomes from it. Many standards exist in the country to guide the quarries and mines exploitation but they do not have impact on the Pissy granite quarry because of its non-reorganization.

Burkina Faso, Granite Mining, Quarry, Ouagadougou, Problem-in-Context (PiC), Environment

Kansole, M. , Compaore, M. , Bagoro, A. , Tamboura, M. , Palenfo, K. and Naba, S. (2021) Understanding the Artisanal Mining of the Pissy Granite Quarry Using the Problem-in-Context Framework (PiC). Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 9, 35-45. doi: 10.4236/gep.2021.97003.