Kinshasa Accounts for Nearly 9.99% of Artisanal Gold Production in 2022
The city of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo produced 9.99% of the total production of artisanal gold during the year 2022, informs the official statistics of the services of the Ministry of Mines.
This proportion of production represents 4.22 kilograms of artisanal gold produced in the city of Kinshasa. A production that raised revenues of around USD 244,431.0.
For the whole of the 2022 financial year, the artisanal sector of the Democratic Republic of Congo produced 42.25 Kg of gold for an estimated value of 1,592,809.58 million US dollars.
According to the same source, the province of South Kivu is at the head of the provinces having carried out the production of artisanal gold with 18.56 kilograms of gold or 43.93% of the total production.
The province of Tshopo is in second place with a production estimated at 12.31 kilograms of gold or 29.14%.
Tanganyika ranks fourth after Kinshasa with a production of 3.19 kilograms of gold representing 7.55% of total production.
Unlike previous years, in 2022 gold production in the Democratic Republic of Congo was dominated by the industrial sector with more than 28,264.01 kilograms of gold.
