Doing business in DRC: Questions about the controversial new mining code persist
The DRC holds half the world’s cobalt and vast copper deposits, in addition to some 1,100 other mineral resources as estimated by the World Bank.
The DRC holds half the world’s cobalt and vast copper deposits, in addition to some 1,100 other mineral resources as estimated by the World Bank.
The update applies a nominal cut-off value of 100.0 g/t AgEq for the project’s Panuco deposit.
Hotly anticipated by investors but opposed by environmental groups, the offering is planned to meet an expected surge in global demand.
BHP has also tried for years to sell its stake in the Nimba prospect.
South African businesses are responding to climate change as environmental groups sue the government for not cracking down on pollution from coal-fired power plants.
Country has also imposed fresh conditions to the miner, including the need of a plan to move its cracking and leaching facility overseas within four years of the licence renewal.
Through the years, miners have devastated an area of the Peruvian Amazon that’s almost five times the size of Manhattan.
As more people and wealth translate into the demand for global goods, the prices of commodities—such as energy, agriculture, livestock, and metals—have often followed in sync.
Across Africa and the developing world, local groups are increasingly mounting legal challenges against companies extracting minerals.
Azuay province is home to several potentially lucrative gold, silver and copper projects.