The country’s enormous energy and mineral resources are consolidating as a key factor in the geopolitical dispute and in ...

THE Democratic Republic of Congo’s mines ministry has prolonged a prohibition on mineral trading from dozens of artisanal operations in its conflict-affected eastern provinces for a further six months ...

Ban affects tin, tantalum, tungsten supply chains M23 rebels, armed groups control mineral-rich areas Congo files complaints against Apple, others over conflict mineral sourcing KINSHASA, Nov 17 ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has extended for six months a ban on the trading of minerals from dozens of artisanal mining sites in conflict-hit North and South Kivu provinces, the mines ministry ...

Quartz and cassiterite crystals of granite, greisens, and quartz veins from Mocambo Granite, Carajás Province, were studied by scanning electron microscopy — cathodoluminescence and electron ...

Japan’s Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) has reportedly developed a new method to make a critical layer inside perovskite solar cells. The company claims this process enables low-temperature mass ...

FeatureIn the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the city of Manono sits atop the world's largest reserves of this mineral essential to the energy transition. A Chinese group signed the ...

A mineral that is difficult to crack meets a raw material that is increasingly in demand in the electronics and semiconductor industry: In multi-stage smelting and refining processes, raw tin is ...

U.S. sanctions have halted Chevron’s operations in Venezuela, leaving China as the primary buyer of Venezuelan crude. While not officially taking over Chevron’s assets, Chinese companies like China ...