, REUTERS -Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighboring Congo, helping fund an insurgency in that vast African country, according to a ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) -A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has killed at least 12 people, a mining source and a civil society source said on Friday.

Beyond oil, Venezuela’s minerals could offer new opportunities for the U.S., though rare earth potential is uncertain.

Venezuela shows how optionality in tantalum and niobium—not scale—could reduce US exposure to highly concentrated, ...

RUBAYA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Under the watchful eye of M23 rebels in the hills around the Congolese town of Rubaya, a line of men in rubber boots ferry sacks full of crushed rocks ...

Deep in the green hills of eastern Congo, the mining site at Rubaya hums with the sound of generators. Thousands work to extract strategic minerals essential for the production of phones, batteries, ...

The ongoing security crisis in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has deepened, with two rebel groups, the Congo River Alliance (AFC) and the 23 March Movement (M23), ...

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