Global Advanced Metals (GAM) joins iTSCi Programme

Global Advanced Metals Pty Ltd (GAM), a leader in the socially responsible production of tantalum, announced that the company has joined the iTSCi Programme recognising that the project supports upstream companies from miners to smelters as they work to address supply...

Congo Miners Seek to Resume Tin Exports from North Kivu

Dow Jones reported that Congolese miners are finalizing plans to resume tin exports in the next few weeks from North Kivu, an area that has been under the de-facto embargo since 1st April 2011, and affected by the mining suspension of the DRC Government for 6 months...

Work of iTSCi acknowledged at launch of ICGLR certificate in DRC

  At a meeting in Kinshasa on the 24th July  the Government of the DRC launched the mechanism for the ICGLR certificate which aims to show the origin of 3T (tin, tantalum, tungsten) minerals and demonstrate the existence of conflict free mineral chains. The...

SEC Rule on Conflict Minerals supported by US Court

US District Court Judge Robert L. Wilkins yesterday agreed with the SEC Rule on ‘conflict minerals’ rejecting a case filed by US business groups seeking to overturn the regulation. In a 63-page ruling, the judge rejected numerous arguments from the...