Social impacts of artisanal cobalt mining in Katanga, …
Between 67,000 and 108,000 workers are involved in the extraction of cobalt in mostly unregistered mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They frequently …
Rethinking artisanal cobalt mining in the DRC
In the DRC, large-scale mining sites exist alongside informal or artisanal small-scale mine sites in the red-soil region of Kolwezi and lush Katanga. Mixing can happen on site.
The DRC's Katanga Province Return of the Copper King
With its huge reserves of mineral wealth, Katanga is the richest province in the DRC. However, years of turbulent politics and neglect of the mining industries had reduced the province's economy to a shadow of its glory in the 1980s. But Katanga is now back and under the vigorous leadership of its governor, Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, is on …
BGR (2019) Mapping of the DRC artisanal copper-cobalt …
artisanal copper-cobalt sector by means of an ASM mine survey carried out in the DRC's key cobalt-producing provinces of Lualaba and Haut-Katanga in April and May 2019. The survey was conducted by multi-stakeholder field teams comprising the BGR, the Carter Center and the Congolese artisanal mining authority, SAEMAPE.
Figure 21 from Social impacts of artisanal cobalt mining in Katanga
Figure 21: Warning sign in the region of Kolwezi (Katanga, DRC): "forbidden to women and children under the age of 18". Credit: T. De Putter 2010, Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium - "Social impacts of artisanal cobalt mining in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo"
High human exposure to cobalt and other metals in Katanga, a mining
High human exposure to cobalt and other metals in Katanga, a mining area of the Democratic Republic of Congo . × ... [CoO(OH)], most often exploited as an earthy and powdery/dusty black product (''terre noire''). Artisanal mining has become widespread in Katanga in the last years, with tens of thousands of young people (including ...
Mapping artisanal small-scale mining in eastern DRC
Training and workshop on mapping artisanal mining in Eastern DRC. (French version below) 2373 Mining sites visited, including 470 visits in the last thirteen months. 300 …
Mineral Concessions: Avoiding Conflict in DR Congo's Mining …
What's new? Competition between industrial and artisanal miners is a source of tension in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the mineral-rich provinces of Haut-Katanga and Lualaba, state security forces intervened in 2019 to expel over 10,000 artisanal miners who were encroaching on two of the country's largest industrial mining …
African Artisanal Mining from the Inside Out
Artisanal mining is commonly associated with violent conflict, rampant corruption and desperate poverty. Yet millions of people across Sub Sahara Africa depend on it. Many of them are living in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), home to important mineral reserves, but also to a plethora of armed groups and massive human …
Social impacts of artisanal cobalt mining in Katanga, …
Figure 18: (left) Artisanal mining gallery in Katanga, DRC. Credit: Pr. Mota Ndongo K. E. C. 2009, University of Lubumbashi (Katanga, DRC) 28 ... Social impacts of artisanal cobalt mining in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo 1 Executive summary The Demorati Repuli of ongo is the worlds leading produer of oalt, a ommodity of whih ...
The formalisation of artisanal mining in the Democratic …
including state actors, artisanal mining is essential for local livelihoods, in an area where few alternative sources of income exist. It has been estimated that more …
Lualaba and Haut-Katanga, DRC
Artisanal cobalt mining. While only producing an estimated 20% of Congolese cobalt, the artisanal cobalt mining sector has attracted the lion's share of …
Social impacts of artisanal cobalt mining in Katanga, …
Between 67,000 and 108,000 workers are involved in the extraction of cobalt in mostly unregistered mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They frequently work under dangerous conditions; fatal accidents are the order of the day. Each year more than one hundred people die in Congolese mines as a result of landslides, shaft …
III. Haut-Katanga and Lualaba: The DRC's Mining …
Over the longer term, however, strengthening economic prospects for artisanal min-ers in Haut-Katanga and Lualaba, regardless of whether they are locals or migrants, ... "Con flict between Industrial and Artisanal Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Case Studies from Katanga, Ituri and Kivu", in Sandra Evers, Caroline Seagle and ...
USAID and Equity BCDC partner to unlock $5 million in loans …
As one of the largest banks in the DRC, Equity BCDC will invest USD 500,000 of its own funds combined with USD 200,000 grant from USAID's Zahabu Safi (Clean Gold) project to create a blended finance solution authorized to reduce the mining risk of lending to the artisanal mining sector.
Kamoa Copper Project, Katanga
Ivanhoe Mines, through its subsidiary African Minerals Barbados Limited (AMBL), holds a 95% interest in the project. The remaining 5% share was transferred to the DRC Government on 11 September 2012 as a non-dilutable interest in AMBL, pursuant to the DRC Mining Code. Location, geology and mineralisation of Kamoa copper mine
PROMINES Study
PROMINES Artisanal Mining Study 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Overview of artisanal mining in the DRC The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has enormous mineral wealth and potential including some of the world's major deposits of copper, cobalt, tin, tantalum, gold and diamonds. Given that most large-
Tenke Fungurume Reports Strong Third-Quarter Production …
The company's tax and related payments to the National Treasury and other public administrative services of the Democratic Republic of Congo amounted to approximately USD 361.57 million during the same period. ... Copperbelt Katanga Mining will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you and to provide …
China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and artisanal …
Download Citation | China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and artisanal cobalt mining from 2000 through 2020 | From 2000 through 2020, demand for cobalt to manufacture batteries grew 26 ...
Delve | Social Impacts of Artisanal Cobalt Mining in Katanga…
Social Impacts of Artisanal Cobalt Mining in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo This study aims at describing thoroughly the socio-economic impacts of cobalt production in the Katanga province (D.R.Congo), and provides consumers, corporate and political decision-makers with an up-to-date and objective analysis of the situation.
Occupational accidents in artisanal mining in Katanga, D.R.C …
[9][10][11] However, it is lower than other studies reported in Kenya (44.7%) 13 and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (72.2%). 29 The reason for the disparity between the current and the ...
Delve | Mapping of the Artisanal Copper-Cobalt Mining …
The BGR organized an inventory and analysis of the national artisanal copper-cobalt sector by means of an ASM mine survey carried out in the DRC's key …
Interactive map of artisanal mining exploitation in eastern DR
Résumé français ci-dessous – French summary below. IPIS launched a major update of it's DRC webmap displaying data on more than 2400 artisanal mining sites in eastern DRC and more than 800 roadblocks. Since December 2016, IPIS teams have visited more than 500 artisanal mines in eastern DRC, gathering data that has …
Artisanal cobalt mining swallowing city in Democratic …
Artisanal miners carry sacks of ore at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct. 12, 2022. Some 20,000 people work at Shabara in shifts of 5,000 at a time. Junior ...
Mapping artisanal small-scale mining in eastern DRC
News Story Map of ASM Sites in the DRC October 6, 2020 Explore IPIS' eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) webmap with a guided narrative. In its new story map, IPIS presents data gathered on eastern DRC's artisanal mining sector and Training and workshop on mapping artisanal mining in Eastern DRC February 9, 2018 […]
Sustainability of artisanal mining of cobalt in DR Congo
In the DRC, cobalt is mined in the Katanga Copperbelt, an area that contains some of the richest cobalt deposits in the world. 13 The global increase in demand of cobalt has led, since about 2000, to a boom in mining of cobalt in Katanga. 9 In 2009, we documented high exposure to cobalt and other trace elements in people living within 3 km of ...
Cobalt blues Environmental pollution and human rights …
Figure 1: Democratic Republic of Congo with its main industrial mining sites The south-eastern part shows Katanga, where copper and cobalt are produced. The conflict-ridden eastern region ...
Mining the Katanga (DRC) Copperbelt: geological aspects …
The Katanga Copperbelt (Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC) is part of a world-class copper and cobalt deposit stretching over SE DRC and NE Zambia. The Copperbelt accounts for >5% of the world s copper (Cu) reserves and ~55% of the cobalt (Co) reserves. Uranium and other trace elements are frequently associated to cobalt. …
Sustainability of artisanal mining of cobalt in DR Congo
Faber, B., Krause, B. & Sánchez De LaSierra, R. Artisanal Mining, Livelihoods, and Child Labor in the Cobalt Supply Chain of the Democratic Republic of Congo Policy Report (Center for Effective ...
High human exposure to cobalt and other metals in Katanga, a mining
The province of Katanga, in the south east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (see Map, Fig. 1), has been a place of intensive mining activities for centuries. In the colonial period, the mining of copper (Cu) and cobalt (Co), as well as of uranium (U), represented one of the Belgian Congo's main sources of revenue (Vellut, 1985).