Stories from the Field
Mineral revenues fund community health centre
One morning in December 2015, a 900m² plot of land stretched before Olivier Mitima in the town of Nyabibwe, South Kivu, DRC. Olivier is the president of the town’s civil society as well as president of the local monitoring committee (CLS) of mining activities in the...
Guidance reduces illegal mining and child labour
Poor oversight of any mine site by authorities, and lack of proper management by companies, can unfortunately create the opportunity for illegal mining to occur. Adults and/or children, desperate to find any source of income to survive, may enter a mine site to work...
Better livelihoods thanks to formalised mining
Like many others growing up in Busoro, Innocent Sibomana’s family was large and faced with the challenges of poverty; his father had two wives and there were 12 children in the family. Innocent described his situation in the earlier years of his life; “I dropped out...
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Mr. Ian Margerison joins the ITSCI Governance Committee
ITSCI is delighted to welcome Ian Margerison, the newly appointed Executive Marketing Manager of the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center (T.I.C.), to the ITSCI Governance Committee. With over 25 years of experience in the tantalum industry, working with a...
New study gives hope for endangered gorillas in eastern DRC
A new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has revealed that the global population estimate of critically endangered Grauer's gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri) is now 6,800 individuals compared to a previous global estimate of 3,800 individuals. ...
Volcanic eruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo
On Saturday 22 May 2021, Mount Nyiragongo situated in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, near the capital city of Goma erupted. From Monday, repeated tremors raised concerns about another eruption. One tremor has reached a 5.1 magnitude. The...
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