DRC Mines Ministry backs ITRI cassiterite traceability project

Following meetings in Kinshasa last week, the Minister of Mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Martin Kabwelulu, has backed ITRI’s supply chain monitoring scheme aimed at identifying the sources of tin ore mined in the country’s eastern provinces. In...

AMC and Global Witness to resume dialogue

Amalgamated Metal Corporation is to resume dialogue with the UK-based NGO Global Witness, which has been highly critical of its trade links with DR Congo, The Times newpaper reported. AMC announced on 18 September that its smelter subsidiary Thaisarco was suspending...

DRC authorities respond to traders’ tax complaint

Tax authorities in the eastern North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa’s top tin producer, are to meet today to resolve a tin blockage caused by tax increases, Bloomberg reports. Tin traders last week stopped buying tin ore from the remote...

Thaisarco suspends DRC purchases

Thaisarco, the tin smelting subsidiary of multi-national metals group AMC, announced today that it has chosen to suspend all purchases of tin ore from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The move follows mounting criticism of companies trading with DRC by campaign...