Starting in 2006, a team of researchers at the Institute de Recherche pour Le Developpement (IRD) in Toulouse France founded a research and capacity building network WAXI ( the West African exploration initiative) including universities, geological surveys and the international mining industry with a focus on the tectonics and metallogenesis of West Africa.
In the first two stages of WAXI, the capacity building activities were led by the IRD. In WAXI stage 3, we established a partnership with ASDM a Luxembourg-based NGO working in Burkina Faso.
As the demand for training and research opportunities has only increased, we have launched a registered charity based in Perth, Australia to undertake and develop these activities.
