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USAID and Equity BCDC partner to unlock $5 million in loans to small-scale artisanal miners in eastern DRC

June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 admin1 Comment

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Equity BCDC have partnered to unlock financial services and products for small-scale artisanal miners in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through the Zahabu Safi Project (Clean Gold) from USAID. As one of the largest banks in the DRC, Equity BCDC will invest USD 500,000 of its own funds combined with USD 200,000 grant from USAID’s Zahabu Safi (Clean Gold) project to create a blended finance solution authorized to reduce the mining risk of lending to the artisanal mining sector. This partnership… Read More Here

Congo mines minister seeks to cancel artisanal cobalt monopoly

May 12, 2022May 12, 2022 admin

Democratic Republic of Congo Mines Minister Antoinette N’Samba Kalambayi is seeking to cancel a decree granting Entreprise Generale du Cobalt (EGC) a monopoly over artisanal cobalt produced in the country, she told Reuters on Wednesday. EGC was created to buy, process, and market artisanal cobalt by government decree in December 2019 and officially launched on March 31 last year but has yet to purchase any cobalt ore. Artisanal miners, who dig cobalt with rudimentary means, are the world’s second-largest source of the metal used in electric vehicle batteries after the Congo’s industrial… Read More Here

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Kinga Kila Mining again calls on the authorities to put an end to the invasion of its site by artisanal diggers in Lualaba

February 28, 2022February 28, 2022 arnbethnic

The Kinga Kila Mining company has again seized the provincial government of Lualaba, Gécamines, the Superior Auditor of the former Katanga as well as the other competent authorities in order to put an end to the invasion of its Kingamyambo mining site. located in the Luilu sector by several hundred artisanal diggers. In its correspondence of Tuesday February 22, 2022, this company well established in law; again asks for support and assistance from this specialized service to restore order on this site. “There is an emergency. Reliable sources indicate that the… Read More Here

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

February 13, 2022February 13, 2022 arnbethnic

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