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Accidents in artisanal mines, SAEMAPE challenges operators on compliance with safety measures 1

The Assistance and Supervision Service for Artisanal Mining and Small-scale Mining (SAEMAPE), in the province of Maniema, calls on artisanal miners to comply with the instructions issued, in order to operate safely in the mining sites. In an interview granted Friday, February 11 to Radio Okapi, the provincial director of SAEMAPE, Patrick Kitembo reveals that he has been observing for several months, cases of accidents involving artisanal miners on mining sites causing deaths or serious injuries. . For him, this situation is the result of non-compliance with the instructions given. “We… Read More Here

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Jacques Djoli proposes the limitation of artisanal exploitation and the revision of the mining code to promote industrial exploitation-DRC

November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 admin

In his intervention during the examination of the report of the parliamentary commission dispatched to South Kivu more precisely in the territory of Mwenga in order to collect information on the illicit exploitation of minerals by foreign companies, the national deputy Jacques Djoli suggests the limitation of artisanal exploitation for the benefit of the industrial exploitation of minerals in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He specified that the insecurity but also the fights between groups have only one objective the concern of wanting to control the mining… Read More Here

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ANTOINETTE N’SAMBA KALAMBAYI & COMIKAT II / UMOJA WA KATANGA DELEGATION, ON THE AUTHORIZATION OF ARTISANAL EXPLOITATION.

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 admin

The Minister of Mines, Antoinette N’Samba Kalambayi discussed Tuesday, October 26, 2021 in her office in Gombe, with the managers of the mining cooperative of Katanga ll / Umoja wa Katanga (Comika) After having respected the steps and procedures necessary for the creation of a mining cooperative, the delegation of Comika led by its national president, Faustin Tshichinga wa Tshichinga, finally came to request from Minister N’Samba Kalambayi, the authorization of the official installation of its cooperative in an area artisanal mining in the province of Lualaba. THE’stake of the… Read More Here

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State to relaunch operations in gold purchase in the artisanal sector to limit fraud- DRC

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 admin

The Ministry of Mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo organized from July 8 to 10 in Kinshasa, the States General of its sector. The Congolese economy is mainly based on mines. But this sector is undermined by several evils including fraud which does not allow the Public Treasury to benefit from the finances generated by the exploitation of mineral resources. The States General in which, among others, mining industrialists from the private and public sector, government experts, made a hundred recommendations to boost this sector. Among these recommendations, it was “asked the central bank… Read More Here

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Landslide in a gold quarry kills one and two injured in Ngalula (Fizi), South Kivu, DRC

May 23, 2021May 23, 2021 arnbethnic

An artisanal miner was killed on Friday May 14 in a gold mining quarry in Ngalula village, in Ngandja sector (Fizi territory). According to local civil society, two other diggers were injured. “There was an accident in a gold quarry in a place called Bikuma. As soon as we were informed, we went to the place. Three people were stranded under the ground. We mobilized other diggers and we managed to save two who were injured and they were taken to the general referral hospital in Lulimba. Unfortunately, the other… Read More Here

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Democratic Republic of the Congo aims to assume control of artisanal mining sector

May 18, 2021May 18, 2021 admin

The Democratic Republic of Congo is undertaking a huge, and potentially significant, experiment, Reuters reported recently. The effort aims to clean up the DRC’s appalling reputational image as a supplier tainted with all manner of human rights abuses and lack of supply chain transparency. Reuters reports the state, in the guise of a new enterprise called the Enterprise Generale du Cobalt (EGC), aims to assume total control of the artisanal cobalt mining sector. That includes monopoly rights to buy all production. Congo and the artisanal cobalt mining sector The government is… Read More Here

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DRC’s presidential chief adviser, Ablavi Michel visits the new mineral trading center of Musompo, Lualaba

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 arnbethnic

The Principal Adviser to the Head of State in charge of mines and energies, Me Eboma Ablavi Michel visited this Saturday, February 20, 2021 the new mineral trading center in Musompo near Kolwezi, capital of the province of Lualaba. Accompanied by the Vice-Governor and Acting Governor Ms. Fifi Masuka Saini, Me Eboma Ablavi Michel visited various compartments including: the laboratory, the depots, the parking lot for large trucks and the bascule bridge. He congratulated the work carried out by the Provincial Executive. The provincial authority then took its distinguished guest to… Read More Here

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DRC Mines Minister wants to create an artisanal mining zone in Kamituga following last week’s accident

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 arnbethnic

Following the landslide that caused the death, on September 11, of more than 50 artisanal gold diggers at the mining site called D3 / TSHANDA in Kamituga, in the province of South Kivu, the Minister of Mines , Willy Kitobo, decided not only to temporarily close this site pending the outcome of the investigations but also to create an artisanal mining zone (ZEA) to allow artisanal miners to continue operating in safety. “Pending the end of the investigations, all artisanal mining activities on the D3 site are suspended. As a… Read More Here

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Congo gold miners scour rubble for bodies after cave-in | DRC

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 arnbethnic

Informal gold miners in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo scoured rubble on Saturday for more than 50 colleagues presumed dead after a mine collapsed under the weight of heavy rain. Hundreds of young men in rubber boots crowded around the site of Friday’s cave-in, with some removing rocks by hand from the muddy hillside, video footage showed. Dozens of people die each year in accidents in largely unregulated artisanal mines in Congo, where often ill-equipped diggers borrow deep underground in search for ore. Alexandre Kamundala, deputy mayor of the nearby town of… Read More Here

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Tesla joins cobalt group that supports artisanal miners in DRC

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 admin

Tesla is backing a new initiative to support informal cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo as carmakers and miners seek to reassure customers about ethically mined supplies of the battery metal. The company joined the fledgling Fair Cobalt Alliance, according to an updated list of members on the group’s website. The FCA aims to end the use of child labour at mining sites and improve working conditions in Congo. It’s also backed by miner and trader Glencore and major Chinese cobalt refiner Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt. Almost three-quarters of… Read More Here