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Glencore and Trafigura caught in Katanga tangle

The elections scheduled in 2017 to determine Congo-K president Joseph Kabila's successor are disrupting the country's economy. The unsettling climate is taking its toll on trading firms Glencore and Trafigura, who dominate copper and cobalt trading in Katanga.Trafigura settles its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

Authorities make battle plans to rescue Banro

The Congolese government has decided to take the bull by the horns and attempt to resolve the hostage crisis that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

First Cobalt forms dream team to secure foothold in Copperbelt

To make sure its new move into Katanga’s cobalt is a success, First Colbalt has brought in experts both in the area and the metal.

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

ITSCI swoops in to save protected national parks

The International Tin Supply Chain Initiative (ITSCI), which monitors the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

Diggers fund ministry of mines’ offices

The fund provisioned by the sale of Societe miniere de [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

Eric Monga energised more than ever to cover electricity shortages

Worried that Katanga’s electricity shortage will atrophy the mining resurgence, Eric Monga is looking to import electricity from South Africa.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 25.04.2017

Is Gecamines cashing out its copper ?

Ignoring a balance sheet in the red, Gecamines recently signed a deal to export copper that seems to its disadvantage.

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

Diggers make a dash for Sanza River gold

In the last few days, the governor of South Kivu [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

Police making their own laws on Mukungwe’s gold mine

Plagued by tension and violence for several years (AMI 357), [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

KLEC bowls over EPPM: hydrocarbon minister retracts

The Kivu Lake Energy Corp (KLEC) headed by Congolese businessman Dieudonné Mwendanga and South African Clinton Wood has made a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

SNEL electrified with rehabilitation of Inga 1 and 2

State-owned power firm Société nationale d’électricité (SNEL) is expecting the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

Australian magnate Tony Sage future Copperbelt king?

Still bound to Australian soil for the moment, Fe, the junior of Frank Timis’ business partner Tony Sage, is prospecting for cobalt in Congo-K and Zambia.

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Artisans normalize Karajipopo copper

The Association des Exploitants Miniers Artisanaux du Katanga (EMAK) and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Martin Kabwelulu waiting on support from entire region regarding illegal diggers

Congo-K’s minister of mines, Martin Kabwelulu, recently criticised the International [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Chinese military join forces with king of Morocco for Pumpi’s copper

Keenly focused on expanding into West African gold (AMI 384) [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Spotlight
Is Dan Gertler facing his last days in oil?

Mining Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler’s Fleurette group, which expanded into Congolese onshore in 2010 via two British Virgin Islands companies, Caprikat and Foxwhelp, to take up the most strategic blocks in Congo-K - blocks 1 and 2 -, could soon [.

Subscribers only Energy 28.03.2017

Politician Aron S. Assumani prepares his electric return

Managing director of Babili Mining and co-founder of Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Mouvement de libération du Congo (MLC), Aron Shabani Assumani signed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.03.2017

Will Amsterdam shake up methane mining in Kivu?

Using €8 million put up by the Dutch government, Congo-K [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.03.2017

MIBA fights it alone

Racked up with debt (AMI 380) and plagued by frequent thefts by clandestine diggers, the Societe Miniere de Bakwanga (MIBA) [...]