Category: Artisanal mining

The Coalition of Civil Society Organizations of Ituri and Haut-Uélé presented the results of its analyzes on the issue of artisanal and small-scale mining in these two provinces. It was during a restitution workshop organized on Thursday, September 01, 2022, in Kinshasa.  This analysis has identified 3 persistent problems that are causing millions of US dollars to escape from the Congolese state, which are destroying the present and future generation. These include in particular: – The stagnation of the formalization process of the artisanal mining sector; – Mining by foreigners, most of whom… Read More Here

The Deputy Director General in charge of technical issues within the Assistance and Supervision Service for Artisanal Small-Scale Mining (SAEMAPE), Eliane Poto Poto, is staying in the provinces of Haut-Katanga and Lualaba where she speaks with miners on specific issues relating to artisanal mining. The presence of Eliane Poto Poto is part of the awareness campaign for the improvement of mining cooperatives. Its main mission is to harmonize the various mining cooperatives and evaluate the management of the provincial services of SAEMAPE in Haut-Katanga and Lualaba. A first in this part of… Read More Here

The development of artisanal mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains hampered by several ills. These include lack of information; insufficient financial and technical resources; the invasion of concession areas; the presence of foreigners on artisanal mining sites as well as fiscal pressure and environmental problems. This is at least what emerges from the workshop organized by the Ministry of Mines from July 9 to 11, 2022 in Zongo in the province of Kongo Central. During these three days of work, the participants in the workshop on the standardization of artisanal mining… Read More Here

The Deputy Minister of Mines, Godard Motemona met, on Tuesday, June 14, with the caucus of deputies of Lualaba on the issue related to the invasion by artisanal miners from this province to the facilities of the mining company Kamoto Copper Company KCC.  Evicted from their mining area in Lualaba, the artisanal miners invaded the site of the KCC mining company. The deputies of Lualaba met the Deputy Minister of Mines, Godard Motemona with a view to demanding the involvement of the government in order to restore calm between the two… Read More Here

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

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

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