A map showing a large number of artisanal gold and other mineral mines in eastern Congo. Source: Locations of artisanal small-scale mining in eastern DRC from International Peace Information ...

Congo’s mining registry said the map they’re using came from files from the ICCN, the body responsible for managing Congo’s protected areas, ...

Mining was done beneath Congo homes. A May 1923 map of the 900 mined acres shows dozens of coal homes, ... Jones remembers when the Congo mine was closed in the mid-1950s.

Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighboring Congo, helping fund an ...

FILE - Gold miners form a human chain while digging an open pit at the Chudja mine near the village of Kobu in northeastern Congo, Feb. 23, 2009.

Congo’s mining registry said the map they’re using came from files from the ICCN, the body responsible for managing Congo’s protected areas, ...

Congo's mining registry said the map they're using came from files from the ICCN, the body responsible for managing Congo's protected areas, ...

On June 27th the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo stood in the Oval Office next to Donald ...

Hundreds of mining documents and maps will be published on the site, it said. DR Congo is rich in gold, diamonds and coltan, used in mobile phones, but many mines are controlled by armed groups.

In a small shack overlooking muddy pits hewn out of eastern Congo's rolling green hills, a government official puts a barcoded tag on a sack of ore rich in tantalum, a rare metal widely used in ...

In a small shack overlooking muddy pits hewn out of eastern Congo's rolling green hills, a government official puts a barcoded tag on a sack of ore rich in tantalum, a rare metal widely used in ...