Congo's mineral offer to US raises questions of ownership amid bloody civil war, major China presence
The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth resources, which are said to be worth trillions of dollars.
A tinderbox conflict in Congo is ready to explode
A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...
A battle is playing out over Congolese cobalt. China is well ahead
Donald Trump has been upending the world order since his return to the White House in January. In this three-part series, we ...
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Congo to enforce artisanal cobalt monopoly after export halt
Those companies are responsible for most of the cobalt produced in the country, which accounts for about three-quarters of global supply. CMOC’s soaring output from two large mines in Congo ...
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Congo suspends cobalt exports for four months amid glut
The move “will likely send cobalt prices skyrocketing in the coming days and weeks.” Glencore Plc, which operates a pair of mines in Congo, was the biggest miner of the metal for years until ...
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Congo bans cobalt exports for four months to curb oversupply
As well as mining cobalt, Congo is also the world's second-biggest copper producer. (Reporting by Ange Kasongo in Kinshasa and Sonia Rolley in Paris, Disha Mishra in Bengaluru, Writing by Felix ...
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Congolese Gécamines intends to acquire a stake in the cobalt project Chemaf
Gécamines SA, Congo's state-owned mining company, has filed an application to acquire a division of Chemaf Resources Ltd. a few months after announcing its intention to block the sale of the copper ...
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China’s MMG halts new Congo plant after one year on cobalt slump
A Chinese State-controlled mining company mothballed a cobalt processing plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo only 15 months after opening it due to a historic slump in the price of the ...