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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 [...] (426 words)

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Chambre des mines
CMM
Edouard Hizi Mwangachuchu
Ets Bakulikira
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Huaying
International Tin Research Institute
Jean Ruyange
John
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Congo Premier Group, a firm headed by former deputy mines

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

Named CEO of Alphamin Resources last month, Boris Kamstra is to launch a definitive feasibility study at the end of

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Ponyo to rule on fraud case involving Banro's cassiterite

Prime Minister Augustin Ponyo is to personally intervene to resolve a dispute concerning the fraudulent export of two tons of

DRC Mining 21/04/2015

Mining Mineral Resources, leader in “clean” coltan

Having exported 314 tons of coltan since May of last

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Euro MPs want tougher traceability measures

The European Parliament Committee on Development wants to force through a tougher bill concerning the traceability of tin, tantalum and

DRC Mining 13/01/2015

Profusion of traceability systems in the east

A report by the Belgian think tank Egmont (see above)

DRC Mining 13/01/2015

Mai Mai fighters figure in mining strategies Free

A report on the impact of the Dodd-Frank act on eastern Congo issued in December by the Egmont think tank,

DRC Mining 25/11/2014

Endorsement from Ploumen

The coltan and cassiterite mine at Rubaya in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo - its goods are prized in the

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Armed groups lose interest in "three Ts"

While the end of the M23 rebellion hasn't meant fewer armed groups occupying mines in eastern Congo their interest has

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Maniema Mining & Valko revive Sakima

The Maniema Mining Co (MMC) headed by India’s Hitesh Chug and assisted by China’s Chua Cheong Young, delivered $2.38 million

Insiders DRC 29/08/2013

Mines at the heart of ethnic allegiances

In this enormous country where central power is weak, ethnic allegiance counts above everything, particularly in the mineral resources sector where the political and economic stakes are high. Whoever controls the copper, cobalt, diamond and cassiterite mines of this vast land controls the manna which will finance the presidential and provincial elections of the future and the military operations needed to repel foreign forces.

DRC Mining 27/08/2013

Bisie conflict-free but still troubled

Closed down for security reasons in 2010, Bisie, the country’s leading cassiterite mine situated in North Kivu, is being put

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DRC Mining 23/07/2013

A very rough ride for cassiterite trade

Hit successively by a government ban on mining tin in 2010 and then American restrictions under the Dodd Frank Act in 2011 followed by incursions by the M23 militias in 2012, Congo-K's tin-related industries seem close to collapse.

DRC Mining 04/09/2012

The "clean" cassiterite that Washington wants to see

Democratic Republic of Congo has safe supply chains for the

DRC Mining 24/01/2012

Coltan and cassiterite smuggling on the rise

Contraband is increasing in the eastern part of Congo-K as

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Consulting firms mine new seam

Companies regulated by the SEC will soon have to show that their products do not contain outlawed conflict minerals. A number of consulting firms have anticipated this development by putting together specialized audit services.

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Metachem's expanding appetite for 3Ts

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

Shomary wins tin concessions

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

Ponyo to rule on fraud case involving Banro's cassiterite

Mining Mineral Resources, leader in “clean” coltan

Euro MPs want tougher traceability measures

Profusion of traceability systems in the east

Mai Mai fighters figure in mining strategies Free

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Armed groups lose interest in "three Ts"

Maniema Mining & Valko revive Sakima

Mines at the heart of ethnic allegiances

Bisie conflict-free but still troubled

A very rough ride for cassiterite trade

The "clean" cassiterite that Washington wants to see

Coltan and cassiterite smuggling on the rise

Consulting firms mine new seam

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