Battle for control of DRC fuelled by increasing demand for minerals such as coltan and cobalt, crucial in smartphones and laptops ...

But thanks to the company’s two massive copper mines in the Congo it has rapidly grown to become the world’s largest producer of cobalt, which comes as a copper by-product. Both TFM and KFM ...

Glencore said it rejected an unsolicited approach from an unnamed buyer for its operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the end of last year.

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 ...

the armed groups want to occupy the whole of eastern Congo because of its land, its gold mines and, above all, its cobalt mines. Gold nuggets can be found by simply digging along the rivers with ...

Violence escalated when the Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement rebels seized control of Goma, a key mining city in eastern ...

A Congolese court has sentenced three Chinese citizens to seven years in prison after they were arrested in possession of ...

CMOC was formerly known as China Molybdenum Co. Ltd. and it remains a significant producer of the steel alloying ingredient. But thanks to the company’s two massive copper mines in the Congo ...