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Map of the Mining in the DRC Rubaya coltan mines. The mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: Industrie minière de la République Démocratique du Congo) produces copper, diamonds, tantalum, tin, gold, and more than 70% of global cobalt production. [1]
[25] [2] [26] May 22, 2021 – artisanal gold mine near Bondo in Bas-Uélé province – 12 killed in a landslide. [27] [28] July 2021 – mining at the Catoca diamond mine in Angola contaminates the Kasai River, killing 12 people living downstream in the DRC and sickening about 4,500 people. [29]
Artisanal gold mines near Dodoma, Tanzania. Makeshift sails lead fresh air underground. Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a blanket term for a type of subsistence mining involving a miner who may or may not be officially employed by a mining company but works independently, mining minerals using their own resources, usually by hand. [1]
The Namoya Mine is in Kabambare Territory of Maniema, [22] It is at the south end of the Twangiza-Namoya gold belt. [2] Namoya Mining, a Banro subsidiary, obtained an exploration permit in 2004. By December 2012 a total of 350 diamond boreholes had been completed, plus 2,074 auger holes. [ 23 ]
The Rubaya mines, also known as the Bibatama Mining Concession, is a series of coltan mining sites near the town of Rubaya [1] in Masisi Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Officially, the mining license is held by Société Minière de Bisunzu Sarl (SMB), associated with Congolese senator Édouard Mwangachuchu . [ 2 ]
Mining continued despite the upheavals that followed independence. [5] The DRC government wants to formalize gold mining, which is an important part of the eastern DRC economy, so as to dry up funding for illegal armed groups. A study of artisanal gold mines around Kampene was conducted in July / August 2014 as part of this process. [6]
The government of the DRC began to review about 60 mining contracts in 2008, and started to release their findings to the mining companies in February 2008. For example, TEAL, a subsidiary of African Rainbow Minerals , was asked by letter to submit their feasibility study for their Kalumines property to identify the real contribution of each of ...
Bisie mine was established after a hunter discovered cassiterite there, [when?] which led to a frenzy. Artisinal mining at Bisie began in 2003. [3]Following the Second Congo War, Mai Mai-allied militia in were to form the 85th brigade of the national army, receive training and then fragment when they deployed throughout the country.