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Glencore plc (100%) The Mutanda Mine (French: Mine de Mutanda) is an open-pit copper and cobalt mine in the Lualaba Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is the largest cobalt mine in the world. Accidents and spills at the mine have killed workers and polluted nearby rivers and fields. An NGO that has documented impacts of ...
Misa Mining controls testing of the ore to determine cobalt and copper content, and an investigation in 2011-2012 found evidence that they systematically undervalue the metal content and did not honestly measured the weight of the ore. [4] Sixty miners died during 2011, making Tilwezembe one of the most dangerous mines in the world. [8]
Musonoi Mine. The Musonoi mine is a set of open-cut pits near Kolwezi from which copper and other metals have been extracted since the 1940s. The mining complex is located in the Lualaba Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1] Kolwezi is about 320 kilometres (200 mi) northwest from Lubumbashi, the provincial capital.
The horrors behind the mining industry that powers your life. Russ Mitchell. February 13, 2023 at 9:00 AM. So-called artisanal miners sort minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, feeding a ...
The cobalt suppliers included Eurasian Resources Group, Glencore, Umicore and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, court papers show. None was named as a defendant. The case is Doe 1 et al v Apple Inc et al, D ...
The Kamoto Mine (French: La mine de Kamoto) is an underground copper and cobalt mine to the west of Musonoi in the former Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2] As of 2022, the site is the largest active cobalt mine in the world. [3] The mine includes the Luilu metallurgical plant, which accepts ore from KOV mine and Mashamba ...
Eric Kalala Nsantu is a Congolese transportation and logistics executive who has been the Chief Executive Officer of Bolloré Transport & Logistics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January 2019. [1] [2] In May 2023, Kalala was appointed by the Congolese president as head of Entreprise Générale de Cobalt (EGC), [3] a subsidiary of ...
A 2007 assessment of the main Luishia mining permit noted that it included about 1,729 square kilometres (668 sq mi) over most of the mine and resource development area, including the existing and planned mining pit. There was a defined total resource of 26.1 million tonnes of ore with average grades of 2.95% copper and 0.68% cobalt.