A local gold refining project presented to DRC’s Minister of Mines Willy Kitobo
The Cambridge Bullion Congo Sarl team and an English delegation accompanied by the representative of BGR (The Federal Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe: BGR) were received on Thursday, March 11, 2021 in Kinshasa, by Minister of Mines Willy Kitobo.
These personalities had come to present to the national boss of Mines their project for the refining of gold on site in the DRC.
The delegation presented in detail a project to install a small-scale gold refining plant with a production capacity of one ton of gold per month. They proposed an investment of three small units across the country (Kinshasa, Bukavu and Bunia) for a value of 325,000 USD per unit installed “informs the cabinet of Willy KITOBO.
In turn, the Minister of Mines Willy KITOBO praised the initiative since it responds to the Government’s policy to transform raw mining products on the spot and especially because the test in the pilot state has already been done in their assembled workshop. in Kinshasa.
With this in mind, it recommended to its hosts to quickly introduce their authorization request files as a processing entity by paying the fees recommended by the mining law as an annual fixed rate of the mining royalty to allow them to be operational, in buying craft gold available in all eastern provinces of our country.
Note that the Congolese national economy is mainly based on the exploitation of raw materials.
