A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...

The DRC produces 70% of the world’s cobalt, yet nearly $1 billion vanishes from the legal supply chain each year.

The cobalt market is no stranger to boom and bust cycles but the current downturn is unprecedented and no-one is sure how ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...

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

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 ...

Reports from eastern DR Congo are not reassuring. The ongoing war in North Kivu is escalating into a regional conflict that is spreading far beyond Goma. Militiamen belonging to the armed group M23, ...

Kazakhstan-backed Eurasian Resources Group plans to review some of its mining permits in the Democratic Republic of Congo and ...

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 mines ...

Concessionary companies made enormous profits in the Congo Free State between 1885 and 1908 ... mainly to China. Cobalt is extracted as a byproduct of copper mining. Artisanal and small-scale mining ...

The cobalt market is no stranger to boom and bust cycles, but the current downturn is unprecedented and no one is sure how long it’s going to last. London Metal Exchange (LME) cobalt has ...