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Battle for clean cassiterite shaping up between trading agencies

A green light early this month for work to proceed at a dozen small-scale cassiterite mines in the regions of Walikale and Lubero in North Kivu has put an end to a long ban on extraction that was decreed in [...]

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Spotlight | DRC
Battle for clean cassiterite shaping up between trading agencies

DRC
Metachem's expanding appetite for 3Ts

DRC
Authorities still can’t get a handle on Fizi’s gold

DRC
Shomary wins tin concessions

DRC
With unrest quelled at Bisie Kamstra wants to extract tin by 2018

DRC
Ponyo to rule on fraud case involving Banro's cassiterite

DRC
Mining Mineral Resources, leader in “clean” coltan

DRC
Euro MPs want tougher traceability measures

DRC
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DRC
Mai Mai fighters figure in mining strategies

DRC
Endorsement from Ploumen

DRC
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Maniema Mining & Valko revive Sakima

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DRC
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Spotlight | DRC
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DRC
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DRC
Coltan and cassiterite smuggling on the rise