CKM NEWSLETTER 31-01-2022

All eyes are on Zambia…

“All eyes are on Zambia,” says Peter Major, director of mining at Mergence Corporate Solutions in South Africa. Major spoke in Cape Town in October as he prepared for a mining investment trip to Zambia. In the new president, Hakainde Hichilema, he says, the country has “a real businessman” in charge. With billions of dollars worth of African gas, gold, copper and cobalt to hit the markets in… Read full article

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• Zambian Government Fast-Tracks The GED Africa Route
• Nigeria’s Ministry of Petroleum Resources Signs Partnership With African Energy
• Glencore, Managem Partner to Recover Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel From Recycled Batteries
• Kagem Signs 2022-2023 Collective Agreement With Zambian Unions
• New High-Grade Lode Discovery at Kibali Excites Barrick CEO

• Congo’s Gas Master Plan Promises to Expand Export Opportunities and Domestic Development
• China’s Zijin Mining Launches First Lithium Exploration Project in DRC
• Barrick Gold Mines in Tanzania Reach Tier One Status
• Chart: How Metals Prices Performed In 2021
• Mines: Tin at 42,500 USD Per Ton on the Market, Double the Price at the Same Period in 2021
• DRC: With a Production of 78.2 Million Carats, Diamond Exports Generated 1.077 Billion USD Between 2015 And 2019
• DRC: Nearly USD 5.8 Billion Collected in Taxes, Duties, Fees and Royalties from Mining and Oil Companies Between 2018 And 2019

Kamoa-Kakula’s Phase 2, concentrator plant is expected to be 93% complete by January 31, 2022…

Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo – Ivanhoe Mines Co-Chairs Robert Friedland and Yufeng “Miles” Sun announced that Kamoa-Kakula’s Phase 2, 3.8-million-tonne-per-annum (Mtpa) concentrator plant is expected to be 93% complete by January 31, 2022, with hot commissioning of the concentrator on track to begin in April 2022, at the front end of the Q2 2022 previous guidance and several months ahead of the original schedule. Hot commissioning involves introducing first ore into the plant at a reduce… Read full article

Pangeni Copper Exploration Project yields further positive results…

BeMetals Corp. (TSXV: BMET, OTCQB: BMTLF, Frankfurt: 1OI.F)  is pleased to announce results from its 2021 core drilling program at the Pangeni Copper Exploration Project (“Pangeni Project” or the “Project”), located on the western extension of the Central African Copperbelt in Zambia. This program comprised six drill holes to test aircore copper anomalies at the D-Prospect and the Q and F targets… Read full article

DRC Assured of American Investment in the year 2022…

Congolese prime minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde has received assurances from White House officials and the us state department that us investments will start in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year 2022. Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge indeed exchanged with a delegation of American officials, this Friday, January 28, 2022, at the Primature. The American mission, made up of delegates… Read full article

• Congo’s Gas Master Plan Promises to Expand Export Opportunities and Domestic Development
• China’s Zijin Mining Launches First Lithium Exploration Project in DRC
• Barrick Gold Mines in Tanzania Reach Tier One Status
• Mines: Tin at 42,500 USD Per Ton on the Market, Double the Price at the Same Period in 2021

Mark Farren Retire from Kamoa Copper SA…

Mr. Friedland and Mr. Sun also announced that Mark Farren, Kamoa Copper’s Chief Executive Officer, will retire from his position at Kamoa Copper following the commissioning of the Phase 2 expansion project. Kamoa Copper has initiated a search for Mr. Farren’s replacement, and Mr. Farren will help support a smooth and seamless transition. Mr. Farren first joined Ivanhoe Mines in June 2014 as…  Read full article

9 Months Suspension lifted over Muondeponde Mining Site in Maniema…

More than nine (9) months after the suspension of mining at the Mupondeponde Mine Site, located in the territory of Kailo, in the province of Maniema, the provincial authorities have decided to reopen this site. It was Mwami Walanga Buterezi, Acting Provincial Minister of Mines, who proceeded to this reopening during an official mission of this mining operation. The latter took advantage … Read full article

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• Congo’s Gas Master Plan Promises to Expand Export Opportunities and Domestic Development
• China’s Zijin Mining Launches First Lithium Exploration Project in DRC
• Barrick Gold Mines in Tanzania Reach Tier One Status
• Chart: How Metals Prices Performed In 2021