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A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has killed at least 12 people, a mining source and a civil society source said on Friday. The sources said ...
Eastern Congo has been in and out of crisis for decades with more than 100 armed groups, most of which are vying for territory in the mining region near the border with Rwanda. The conflict has ...
A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province has killed at least 12 people, a ...
On most days, hundreds of men trudge into this mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo wearing plastic headlamps ... hundreds of thousands of tons of ore. But regular people, and sometimes ...
worked for four years driving the heavy trucks that hauled away tons of cobalt ore from a gaping hole at one of the biggest mines in Congo. The vibrations from the equipment and the jolts of ...
Turns out your laptop—or camera or gaming system or gold necklace—may have a smidgen of Congo’s pain somewhere in it. The duo also visited a cassiterite (tin ore) mine whose militia owners ...
Mining has devastated many sectors of the ... And that's how billions of dollars worth of ore leave Congo every year. Shubango Bucasa(ph) says the negotiant is a… Mr. SHUBANGO BUCASA (Artisanal ...
Congo's tin ore represents a relatively small slice of the world market, but in recent years supplies have been so tight that efforts to stop mining at Bisie have caused price spikes. Earlier this ...
KOLWEZI, Democratic Republic of Congo — Little about Kolwezi ... Earlier this year, mining firms began shipping ore along a U.S.-backed railway that terminates in Angola's Atlantic port of ...
If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...
KINSHASA - A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province ... the world's supply of coltan, a metallic ore crucial to the production of smartphones ...
BADONDO IRON Equatorial’s initial drilling campaign of 14 holes generated an exploration target of between 1.3-billion tonnes and 2.2-billion tonnes of iron mineralisation Despite the iron-ore ...