Traceability and certification of minerals are the basis of DRC’s revised Mining Code
The Minister of Mines, Willy Kitobo Samsoni, indicated that the traceability procedure and the certification of mineral deposits are one of the objectives set out in the revised Mining Code, as part of the media campaign to popularize the revised mining code that it started almost three months ago and continues to this day.
According to the communication unit of the said ministry, the Minister of Mines, the correct and complete application will allow the Government to achieve the targeted objectives.
“We will only achieve the objectives of the revision of the mining law when the revised mining code is applied correctly and fully. Said Minister Kitobo.
And to specify that to facilitate its application, the legislator introduced important innovations relating to transparency, good governance, traceability and certification of deposits and minerals.
According to the source, the media campaign to popularize the revised mining code is in its fourth module, which focuses on transparency and good governance in the mining sector.
In this module, the principles of the concepts and the related provisions of the revised Mining Code are explained.
The Minister of Mines Kitobo, the experts and technicians of his ministry, are already mobilized on the ground for this media campaign that he himself, as a supervisor, wants to benefit the delegation of miners during the working sessions that are taking place. will keep in touch with the expiration of the moratorium granted to mining companies on the export of concentrates from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The communication unit of the Ministry of Mines specifies that by introducing the third module devoted to training, during this media campaign, Minister Willy Kitobo recalled that it is the services of his ministry which are responsible for the management and any another task, before insisting on the missions and field of activities of the Mining Cadastre (CAMI) as set out in the decree that creates and organizes it.
In addition, the Minister of Mines considers that the management of the mining title is a very important module because it explains all the procedures that go into the process of obtaining the titles or any document.
And, concerning the granting of titles by call for tenders, the Minister affirmed that it is the role of the State to have to study and document certain mining areas recovered during renewals and / or extinction.
