DRC: 78,935 tonnes of cobalt produced at the end of November 2020, i.e. production up 8.6% compared to the same period in 2019
The Democratic Republic of the Congo produced 78,935.53 tonnes of cobalt up to the end of November 2020 against 72,506.93 tonnes in the same period in 2019, according to figures from the Ministry of Mines.
For the whole of 2019, the Democratic Republic of the Congo produced 77,964 tonnes of cobalt. So the production of the first 11 months of the year 2020 exceeds that of the whole year of 2019 by 1.24%.
Recall that the DRC’s mining industry achieved a record production of 109,402 tonnes of cobalt in 2018 against 82,461 tonnes in 2017.
