MINING IN THE DRC Miner recommissions hydropower station 14th February 2025 A joint venture between China’s Zijin Mining Group and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) State-owned mining company Cominiere Katamba Mining has seen the completion of the recommissioning of... ...
communities wiped off maps and impunity. These are the serious accusations made against the mining company Alphamin Bisie Mining SA by the Indigenous communities of Banamwesi and Motondo, which oversee community forest concessions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). ...
The DRC got better. We spun that out into NGEx and started making a lot of discoveries. It was tough at the bottom of the cycle. We were drilling seasonally. We wouldn’t drill through the wintertime because of harsh conditions. I think that made us know that if we were going year-ro...
Ivanhoe expands Makoko copper deposit in DRC An 81,000‑metre drill program last year in the Western Forelands drove the expansion. Henry Lazenby - The Northern Miner| February 24, 2025 | 11:39 am Greenland Resources inks 10-year offtake with Finland’s Outokumpu ...
Movements on the 2009 map: Thirteen countries have been upgraded to a lower risk level: Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, Colombia, Kuwait, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Moldova, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Turkmenistan. Eighteen countries have been downgraded to a higher risk level: Afghanistan, Congo DRC,...
The data for the replication of the statistical analysis are available athttps://github.com/maladewig/ASM-deforestation-DRC. Code availability The code for the replication of the statistical analysis is available for download athttps://github.com/maladewig/ASM-deforestation-DRC. ...
Focusing on the case of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the former explains how mining corporations increasingly play a role in formalising ASM communities through corporate-sponsored cooperatives, “but without the rights and benefits of formally employed workers” (p....
This article argues that the local political economy of the mining sector is of crucial importance in determining the feasibility of ASM-LSM collaboration. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) traceability schemes, intended to ensure that minerals and metals are ‘conflict-free’, are a...
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“conflict minerals” originating in eastern DRC led to increased child mortality in villages located near affected mines; Sánchez De La Sierra (2020), who study how different mineral endowments influence the evolution of political institutions, also in eastern DRC; and Bazillier and Girard (2020)...