· Bukavu (DR Congo) (AFP) – Chineseowned companies, under investigation for irregularities in their gold mining operations in the far east of .
· 1. Kibali, DRC. 808 koz. Kibali is the biggest gold mine in Africa, loed in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), approximately 220 kilometres east of the capital of the Haut Uele province, Isiro, 150 kilometres west of the Ugandan border town of Arua and 1,800 kilometres from the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
· Listen to a recording of the webinar hosted by DRC Mining Week and Mining Review Africa which explored the lucrative gold opportunities in the region, how best to overcome the challenges in accessing these ore bodies and what untapping these resources could do the DRC economy.
· Hundreds of villagers flocked to a small village of Luhihi in the Democratic Republic of Congo to illegally mine gold after a mountain madeup of gold deposits were discovered. Authorities had to announce a ban on mining activities after the gold rush in South Kivu province drew thousands of diggers to the site. Freelance journalist Ahmad Algobary shared a video on his Twitter account that ...
· Stones are rinsed and sorted near a Congo cobalt mine. More than 60% of the world''s cobalt comes from the southeastern provinces of DRC. Photograph: Siddharth Kara
Posted: (10 days ago) Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are subjected to the worst forms of child labor, including in the forced mining of gold, tin ore (cassiterite), tantalum ore (coltan), and tungsten ore (wolframite), and are used in armed conflict, sometimes as a result of forcible recruitment or abduction by nonstate armed groups.
· It is still dark when Solange leaves home at 5:00am for her job in the mines of eastern Congo, where she digs by hand for a dull black metallic ore called columbitetantalite. ... Congo''s black gold.
· Bukavu (DR Congo) (AFP) – Chineseowned companies, under investigation for irregularities in their gold mining operations in the far east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
· Gold mining in Congo DRC for quality gold deposits. Gold mining in Congo DRC is the land of 24k and 22k gold either in nuggets, dust or bars. It''s not a fairy tale that Congo has lots of gold. Most of our gold stock is originally mined from congo drc and also it''s the reason why most people love our gold.
Kibali Gold Project. Kibali is in the northeast of DRC, approximately 150km west of the town of Arua, on the border with Uganda. The project was a joint venture between Randgold (45%), AngloGold Ashanti (45%), and Sokimo (10%). Kibali was anticipated to be one of the largest gold mines in Africa, consisting of open pit and underground operations.
Gold Mining in DR Congo WATSHA GOLD MINING HAS COME TO STAY. The Democratic Republic of Congo is estimated to have 24 trillion (equivalent to the combined Gross Domestic Product of Europe and the United States) worth of untapped deposits of raw mineral ores, including the world''s largest reserves of cobalt and significant quantities of the world''s diamonds, gold and copper.
· A gold rush drawing thousands to a village in Congo''s South Kivu province has driven authorities to ban mining there until more oversight is established.
· The Kibali gold mine is loed in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), approximately 220 kilometres east of the capital of the Haut Uele province, Isiro, 150 kilometres west of the Ugandan border town of Arua and 1,800 kilometres from the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
· With Unusual Mining Cooperative, DRC Community Strikes Gold. Miners have transformed the Ituri River in Basili, Democratic Republic of Congo, into a gold mine. They say they''re not aware of any potential risks of mining in the river, a practice that can damage the river''s health. Pascaline Kavuo Mwasi Saambili, GPJ DRC.
· The promising gold mining concession in northeastern Congo had become part of the Ashanti Goldfields portfolio in 1996 when the company bought a stake in a joint venture operation between Mining ...
· Homes bulldozed to make way for gold mining in DR Congo. In midOctober, local authorities ordered the destruction of several houses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on land operated by the mining company Kibali Gold Mining since 2009. Local residents protested against the operation in demonstrations that were brutally repressed by ...
· Some 13,000 people work at the mines around the village or in local businesses that buy gold and otherwise rely on the mines for income. Yet the mining operations have come at a steep cost — to the safety and health of the miners, and to the environment.
