The company says current weak prices for cobalt don't justify expanding daily throughput to 6,000 tonnes from 4,650 tonnes at its proposed Nico project.
It's the latest initiative in eastern DRC to improve systems meant to show minerals entering global supply chains come from mines that don’t use child labour or fund warlords and corrupt soldiers.
A joint action plan being drafted by senior officials in the two countries will be presented to the political party that forms the next government after the Oct. 21 election.
