On 31 May, 2021, Kamoa Copper signed a 10-year agreement with the Lualaba Copper Smelter (LCS), located outside the town of Kolwezi, for the processing of a portion of Kamoa’s copper concentrate production. Kamoa Copper delivered its first copper concentrates to the Lualaba smelter on 1 June. LCS is 60%-owned by China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group (CNMC) of Beijing, China. Yunnan Copper of… Read full article
GoviEx Uranium Inc. has sealed a drilling contract with Hydro Tech Drilling & Exploration (Hydro Tech) to undertake exploration and resource delineation drilling programs on Mutanga Uranium project. “With the reissued Chirundu Mining Permit we are keen to get back to advancing our Zambian assets with the development of Mutanga. The Project benefits from very simple and straightforward operations… Read full article
MANONO IS THE LARGEST AND HIGHEST GRADE UNDEVELOPED HARD-ROCK LITHIUM PROJECT IN THE WORLD, AND AVZ AIMS TO ENSURE IT IS 100% ‘GREEN’. Australian-listed AVZ Minerals (ASX:AVZ) is surging towards deciding to go into production after signing four long-term offtake agreements for its world-class Manono hard-rock lithium and tin project during the last four months. The binding SC6 offtake agreement…Read full article
Since 2019, the Canadian gold company, Banro, has decided to suspend its activities in four of its subsidiaries, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, for security reasons. This Saturday, June 05, 2021, the DRC’sMinister of Mines received a delegation from this company, led by its main shareholder, Luc Gérard. The latter exchanged with the Minister of Mines, Antoinette N’Samba, on the… Read full article
During the closing ceremony of the April 2021 session, held on Tuesday, June 1 at the People’s Palace, the President of the Economic and Social Council (CES), Jean-Pierre Kiwakana Kimayala, appealed to the government for transparency in the management of mining revenues, especially since mining is a sector likely to boost the development of the Democratic Republic of the Congo… Read full article
Global cobalt prices were steady yesterday, as market participants shrugged off a temporary ban on exporting cobalt and copper concentrate from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).European prices for cobalt metal were assessed unchanged yesterday at $19.80-20.50/lb du Rotterdam for chemical and alloy grades. Chinese domestic prices were also stable at Yn334-365/kg ($52-57/t) ex-works, while…Read full article