The DRC produces 70% of the world’s cobalt, yet nearly $1 billion vanishes from the legal supply chain each year.

The cobalt market is no stranger to boom and bust cycles but the current downturn is unprecedented and no-one is sure how ...

Violence escalated when the Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement rebels seized control of Goma, a key mining city in eastern ...

Analysis - Lubumbashi is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

DR Congo is a country in Central Africa but many people do not know that the country hosts many mineral resources important ...

Gécamines SA, Congo's state-owned mining company, has filed an application to acquire a division of Chemaf Resources Ltd. a few months after announcing its intention to block the sale of the copper ...

Reports from eastern DR Congo are not reassuring. The ongoing war in North Kivu is escalating into a regional conflict that is spreading far beyond Goma. Militiamen belonging to the armed group M23, ...

M23's capture of mineral-rich areas in Congo is boosting its illegal mining revenues, fueling fears of a regional conflict spillover. Despite Rwanda's denial of involvement, the illegal mineral trade ...

But thanks to the company’s two massive copper mines in the Congo it has rapidly grown to become the world’s largest producer of cobalt, which comes as a copper by-product. Both TFM and KFM ...