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

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

Crane manufacturer Condra is solidifying its position as a supplier of cranes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ...

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 ...

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

DR Congo is a country in Central Africa but many people do not know that the country hosts many mineral resources important ...

A Congolese court has sentenced three Chinese citizens to seven years in prison after they were arrested in possession of gold bars and $400,000 in cash and found guilty of illegal activities linked ...

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, ...

According to SEC.gov, Tesla relies on child labor to mine precious metals such as cobalt. Tesla is being sued for failing to address documented labor by children in its supply chain. The lawsuit ...

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

Congo has struggled to stop unlicensed companies and local armed groups exploiting its rich reserves of cobalt, copper ... arrested on suspicion of illegal mining in a separate case were released.