Category Archives: World
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‘’Kamoa-Kakula, pas de la publicité et encore moins de la spéculation. C’est confirmé.’’
Cape-Town, mardi 7 février 2016. Malgré un agenda très occupé et à la veille de sa présentation sur le Projet Kamoa-Kakula et celui de Kipushi au traditionnel ‘’DRC-Breakfast’’, le plus grand gisement minier de cuivre en République Démocratique du Congo et en Afrique classé parmi les dix plus ...
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China Moly Lists Three Companies Buying Stakes in Congo Investor
(Bloomberg) — China Molybdenum introduced three investors to Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners to support company’s acquisition of minority stake in Tenke Fungurume copper, cobalt mine in Democratic Republic of Congo, according to statement published March 6. * Companies to ...
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Cobalt Steps Out of the Shadows as Glencore’s New Star Player
(Bloomberg) — Cobalt is having a moment in the spotlight. Historically a minor byproduct of copper and nickel mining, the metal is a key ingredient for lithium-ion batteries and now a growing money maker for Glencore Plc. In the past eight months, prices more than doubled on speculation ...
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Secret of the Kibali Mine: Flying People in and Gold Bars Out
(Bloomberg) — Randgold Resources Ltd. had to haul heavy equipment more than 1,000 miles to build the roads and hydropower plants needed to construct its Kibali gold mine, the biggest in Democratic Republic of Congo. The sprawling facility in a remote corner of a country the size of ...
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Glencore agrees to buy Fleurette’s copper and cobalt DRC assets for $960 million
Glencore has increased its hold on Democratic Republic of Congo’s copper and cobalt resources by buying the remaining stake in the Mutanda mine from resource group Fleurette and increasing its share in Katanga for a total of $960 million. Company statements said Glencore now owns 100 ...
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Biodiversity, SEK SA implements its conservation priority species management plan on its mine site in DRC-Katanga.
The Katangan copper arc, which extends over the provinces of Upper Katanga and Lualaba in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is an area known for its numerous deposits of copper and cobalt (and other metals of economic interest). These appear on the surface in the form of hills covered by a ...
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Biodiversité, SEK SA met en œuvre son plan de gestion des espèces prioritaires protégées sur son site minier en RDC-Katanga.
L’arc cuprifère katangais, qui s’étale sur les provinces du Haut-Katanga et du Lualaba en République Démocratique du Congo, est une région connue pour ses nombreux gisements de cuivre et de cobalt (et d’autres métaux d’intérêts économiques). Ceux-ci apparaissent en surface sous formes de ...
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Des échappatoires dans le régime fiscal du Mali en font un aimant pour le commerce illicite de l’or en Afrique de l’Ouest
Il est urgent d’exercer une diligence raisonnable sur l’or de l’Afrique de l’Ouest, comme en témoigne un nouveau rapport qui révèle des écarts dans les statistiques sur la production et sur le commerce entre le Mali et les EAU OTTAWA, Canada, 26 janvier 2017/ — Les pratiques fiscales du ...
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Freeport-McMoRan paid Congo’s Gécamines $33 million to settle Tenke dispute
KINSHASA Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX.N) paid $33 million to resolve claims brought against it by Congo state miner Gécamines over the sale of its majority stake in the Tenke copper mine to China Molybdenum Co Ltd (CMOC) (603993.SS), it said in a statement. The settlement, revealed in the ...
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DR Congo’s Government Drops VAT on Imports for Mining Companies
Democratic Republic Congo will suspend value-added tax on imports for mining companies to ease the operating conditions for struggling miners, Finance Minister Henri Yav Mulang said. In April the government ordered the central bank to temporarily stop reimbursing VAT in order to reduce pressure ...
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