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[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]
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 ]
Canada's mining ministry, Natural Resources Canada, estimated the 2009 value of Canadian-owned mining assets in the D.R. Congo at Cdn.$3.3 billion, ten times more than in 2001, making the DRC the African country with second-highest African level of Canadian investment after Madagascar, and Canadian investment in the Congo representing a sixth ...
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 ]
The venture, Punia Kasese Mining (PKM), was to be owned 70% by Dott and 30% by SAKIMA. [11] [12] In June 2021, DRC president Felix Tshisekedi signed an agreement with Rwandan president Paul Kagame for gold from the venture to be sent to the Rwandan company Dither Ltd for refining, but the deal was revoked in June 2022 amid the renewed offensive ...
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]
Artisanal mining can include activities as simple as panning for gold in rivers, to as complex as development of underground workings and small-scale processing plants. . Miners use a variety of methods to locate minerals, including historical knowledge, the observation of other minerals or rocks, or technology such as mineral detectors and audio-based reflection seismology surve
The Société Minière et Industrielle du Kivu (Sominki) was created to hold all the mining assets by a convention of 31 May 1974. [2] In March 1976 Sominki took over Syndicat Miniere de l'Etain (Symetain), completing the merger. [3] The state held 28% of shares in Sominki, but the Empain group was the majority shareholder. [4]