Disruptions caused by the coronavirus crisis have pushed up prices for sulphur by about 10% this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo , driving up costs of a vital ingredient for mining cobalt and copper in the African nation.
News ID: 9577 Publish Date : 2020/05/21
Nine years after the implementation of a law requiring publicly traded companies to ensure their raw materials don’t come from mines that use child labour or fund warlords or corrupt soldiers, companies’ efforts to comply continue to fall short.
News ID: 6765 Publish Date : 2019/10/11
Ebola is infecting and killing people in a gold mining area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo , and the “complex and dangerous” outbreak still constitutes an international emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
News ID: 6754 Publish Date : 2019/10/20
The Chinese operator of the Democratic Republic of Congo ’s largest copper producer has told employees that it’s struggling to make money as the collapse of cobalt and copper prices hits miners in the country.
News ID: 6078 Publish Date : 2019/08/21
China’s biggest cobalt refiner Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt said on Thursday its overseas unit is pulling out a deal to invest $66.3 million in a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after prices of the metal slid.
News ID: 6026 Publish Date : 2019/08/18
President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , popularly known as DR Congo , Mr. Felix Tshisekedi has reportedly invited Engineers and Planners to start commercial bauxite mining in the area.
News ID: 5562 Publish Date : 2019/07/29
Australian cobalt developer Jervois Mining will take over eCobalt Solutions after shareholders of the Canadian company voted in favour of the deal, Jervois said on Monday.
News ID: 5431 Publish Date : 2019/07/23
The death last month of 43 artisan miners at the Kamoto Copper Company KOV concession in the Democratic Republic of Congo has refocused attention on the human cost of producing what is a key input into electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
News ID: 5147 Publish Date : 2019/07/13
Workers at Nutrien Ltd.’s Cory potash mine in Saskatchewan have been stuck underground since Tuesday afternoon, but are safe.
News ID: 5032 Publish Date : 2019/07/04
The dozens of people killed in a landslide at Glencore Plc’s mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo highlight a constant struggle in the industry: illegal mining.
News ID: 4940 Publish Date : 2019/06/30
Congo ’s interior minister vowed to remove all illegal miners by Sunday from a copper and cobalt mine run by Glencore following a landslide this week that killed at least 43 of them.
News ID: 4938 Publish Date : 2019/06/30
Relations between the Zambian government and its copper mining sector have just taken a turn for the worse.
News ID: 4686 Publish Date : 2019/05/30
Billionaire Robert Friedland, founder and executive chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN), said Wednesday his copper project with Chinese partners, Zijin Mining Group and Crystal River Global, in the Democratic Republic of Congo “definitely” has the potential to become the world’s second-largest red metal mine.
News ID: 3580 Publish Date : 2019/02/06
AVZ Minerals’ Manono became the world’s largest non-brine lithium resource after the Perth-based company released the maiden estimate for its 60%-owned project in southern DRC in August this year.
News ID: 2884 Publish Date : 2018/12/11