These dynamics reflect the growing role of armed groups in illicit mineral trade networks and the weakening of state ...

Trump administration backs American mining company Virtus Minerals in the DRC to counter China's control of critical cobalt and copper supply chains.

The global energy transition represents a significant opportunity for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with its vast ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has ordered cobalt producers to forfeit all export quotas left unused during the first ...

CORRECTION: Buenassa Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to Spotlight Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Mineral Beneficiation ...

More than 200 people have died and dozens are missing after a landslide on March 3 at the Kasasa site in the Rubaya mining area in Masisi territory, North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

U.S.-based firm Virtus Minerals has reached an agreement to take control of large copper and cobalt mines run by Dubai-based Chemaf in the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to its ...

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Neither Cameroon nor the DRC is doing enough to improve oversight and management of unregulated gold mining.Gold mining revenues are increasingly bypassing official coffers in the Democratic Republic ...

Like oil in the twentieth century, lithium is the ‘white gold’ of the twenty-first. Demand for this key element is driving economic growth based on the ‘renewable’ energy provided by lithium-ion ...