“The DRC has long been an exciting mining destination, and our SRK Consulting Congo practice has seen considerable progress over the ten years since its establishment,” says Jordaan.

A leading producer of copper and cobalt, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is also seeing exploration interest in ...

The DRC Minister of Mines, H.E. Kizito Pakabomba Kapinga Mulume, says he is looking forward to visiting “the legendary DRC Mining Week,” which is taking place from 11–13 June in Lubumbashi. The ...

This is a significant concern in a country like the DRC, where some processing plants do not have their own mining operations, for example. The market for the processing of third-party-mined ...

In the DRC’s copper belt, pollution from the mining of cobalt and copper, critical minerals for the energy transition, is on the rise and polluters are ignoring their legal obligations to clean ...

It has the largest reserves of cobalt in the world and the 7th largest deposit of copper, making it the cynosure of the mining world. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) plays a central role in ...

Kengere Mining, a subsidiary of Ivanhoe Mines, is registered as a private company in the DRC. On 16 April 2023 it was granted an exploitation permit to operate a small copper mine of 38 square ...

But the ongoing war in eastern DRC, fuelled in part by competition for these resources, threatens to undermine our climate aspirations. Cobalt and coltan mining have become increasingly important ...