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Minister Bulindi evicted after harsh treatment of Kivu's miners

Tensions with the province's mining operators were reportedly a key factor in the ousting of South Kivu minister of mines, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.10.2017

Ruling party MP makes foray into oil trade

Marie Muabi-Tumba, a MP of president Joseph Kabila's party Parti [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.10.2017

Spotlight
Gecamines caught up in own double play between Forrest and Shamrock in Lubumbashi

The conflict waging between George Forrest International (GFI) and Congolese state-run firm Gecamines for control of the Lubumbashi slag heap (AMI 391) conceals another, more strategic, tug-of-war. When it had evicted GFI from the slag heap, Gecamines is reported to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.10.2017

End of the line for Kasai diamond train?

The dilapidated state of the Kasai province railway network, in southern Congo-K, is threatening the viability of diamond operators in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.10.2017

Peter Tsegas heads west into Copperbelt

Wanting to get in on the battery market boon and discouraged by Tanzania's hardnosed policies, Peter Tsegas has decided to strike up business in Congolese copper and cobalt.

Subscribers only Mining 17.10.2017

Tony Harwood seeks exit to South African and Tanzanian quagmire

Tony Harwood, CEO of Canadian junior Montero Mining & Exploration, wants to ride on the current rising demand for metals [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.10.2017

Emirati Pan Global also takes a swipe at Gecamines

Disappointed by the quantities and quality of the copper supplied [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.10.2017

South Kivu mines top of class for child labour record?

In late September, Apollinaire Bulindi, South Kivu provincial mines minister, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.10.2017

Diggers take on low-cost counters

In early October, artisanal miners in the Kalehe territory in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.10.2017

Mining expert-cum-lobbyist Rick Gittleman launches consultancy firm

Rick Gittleman, the former legal counsel at Glencore, recently inaugurated [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.10.2017

Kevin Todurag, Yves Kabongo's Katangan ally

Yves Kabongo, the former right-hand-man of businessman Dan Gertler at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.10.2017

South Kivu Treasury failure on ore exports

Business has been at all but a standstill for the ore trading stations in Bukavu, capital of South Kivu, over [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.10.2017

Red Rock covets Ivanhoe Mines good fortune in Kamoa

Already active in gold, coal, nickel and manganese, the British junior is now investing in the booming copper and cobalt sectors.

Subscribers only Mining 03.10.2017

Sarosh Zaiwalla, gold exporter Lodhia's envoy to the EU

The lawyer tasked by Ugandan family Lodhia, accused of illegal trafficking of gold out of Congo-K, has not managed to have the European sanctions on its clients lifted.

Subscribers only Mining 03.10.2017

Mazars to tackle Gecamines audit

Announced in mid-September by Albert Yuma Mulimbi, chairman of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.10.2017

NGO Carter Center collars Gecamines again

According to our sources, American NGO Carter Center is getting [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.10.2017

War lords and mining operators clash swords over Luziba coltan

According to our information, 32 people were injured in mid-September [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.10.2017

Environmentalists fear for Epulu wildlife reserve

The Institut congolais pour la conservation de la nature (ICCN) [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.10.2017

Chinois Railway triumphs in battle for Kolumbwe copper

The Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) recently rejected a complaint filed by private Congolese firm Exaco, which had claimed $55 million from China Railway.

Subscribers only Mining 19.09.2017

Simon Youds' plans to defuse diggers' revolt

Australian entrepreneur Simon Youds, who develops gold projects in the Maniema province of eastern Congo-K via the firm he heads, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.09.2017

No-show from Katanga's viceroys

Expected at the Sultani Makutano conference held in Kinshasa mid-September, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.09.2017

Celicourt builds muscles alongside continent's juniors

Young British consultancy Celicourt Communications has been brought on board [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.09.2017

Who holds OilQuest Holdings' capital?

Oil Quest Holdings, which is in talks with the Congolese authorities to recover block V that straddles the Virunga national [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.09.2017

Subcontractor MCSC cleared of customs fraud suspicions

Blocked for a few weeks by an investigation into alleged customs fraud, the mining subcontractor Mining Contracting Services Congo has succeeded in negotiating a way out with the Congolese judiciary.

Subscribers only Mining 05.09.2017

Germano-Turk law firm Prae Legal tries a hand at gemstone trading

In August, Congolese businessman Aubin Mabanza met in Cologne with [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.09.2017

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