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Over 2,000 Artisanal Mining sites exist in Mozambique 1 International Artisanal mining Coal Gold 

Over 2,000 Artisanal Mining sites exist in Mozambique

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Over 2,160 artisanal mining sites have been identified in Mozambique as part of the Artisanal Mining Census. The results have been published by the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, in coordination with the National Statistics Institute (INE). According to Thursday’s issue of the Maputo daily “Notícias”, the data show that, of the total sites, 1,577 are active with 31 per cent dedicated to gold mining. In 2021. artisanal mining involved 806,957 people, corresponding to 2.6 per cent of the country’s population. Three-quarters of the miners have this activity as… Read More Here
Establishment of a commission to demilitarize artisanal mining sites in Haut-Katanga 2 Copper Artisanal mining Mining in DRC 

Establishment of a commission to demilitarize artisanal mining sites in Haut-Katanga

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The provincial authorities of Haut-Katanga – the DRC’s capital of copper – decided, during a security council held on Tuesday, September 21, 2022, to set up an inter-service commission to demilitarize the artisanal mining quarries in this part of the Republic. Democratic Republic of the Congo. On behalf of the provincial government of Haut-Katanga, the provincial minister of interior and security acknowledged that despite the provincial executive’s ban, the military is still visible in artisanal mining quarries. “About the demilitarization of artisanal mining quarries, an inter-services commission will go to… Read More Here
Haut-Uélé and Ituri: several foreign companies carry out artisanal mining under the cover of political and military authorities 3 Artisanal mining Mining in DRC 

Haut-Uélé and Ituri: several foreign companies carry out artisanal mining under the cover of political and military authorities

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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
Artisanal gold mining at the center of exchanges between Godard Motemona and the provincial ministers of South Kivu, Maniema and the USAID representative 4 Artisanal mining Gold Mining in DRC 

Artisanal gold mining at the center of exchanges between Godard Motemona and the provincial ministers of South Kivu, Maniema and the USAID representative

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The city of Kinshasa hosted, on August 24 to 25, 2022, a seminar with the aim of taking stock and evaluating the behavior of the Artisanal Gold Traceability Initiative (ITOA) since its launch. . It is in this context that the Deputy Minister of Mines, Godard Motemona received in audience the same Thursday evening, a sample of actors who took part in these meetings.  During these exchanges, the hosts made the restitution of the resolutions resulting from these days of reflection to the Vice-Minister. Facing the press, the Provincial Minister of… Read More Here
DRC: SAEMAPE sensitizes mining operators on the process of granting technical advice 5 Artisanal mining Mining in DRC 

DRC: SAEMAPE sensitizes mining operators on the process of granting technical advice

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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
DRC: the six evils that hinder the development of artisanal mining 6 Artisanal mining Mining in DRC 

DRC: the six evils that hinder the development of artisanal mining

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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
Invasion of artisanal miners in the KCC site: Godard Motemona reassures prompt return of peace 7 Artisanal mining Mining in DRC 

Invasion of artisanal miners in the KCC site: Godard Motemona reassures prompt return of peace

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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
USAID and Equity BCDC partner to unlock $5 million in loans to small-scale artisanal miners in eastern DRC 8 Artisanal mining Mining in DRC 

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

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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 9 Cobalt Artisanal mining Mining in DRC 

Congo mines minister seeks to cancel artisanal cobalt monopoly

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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
Kinga Kila Mining again calls on the authorities to put an end to the invasion of its site by artisanal diggers in Lualaba 10 Mining in DRC Artisanal mining 

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

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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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