Fighting for control of the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral wealth has killed millions. Trump wants to end it, and ...

African copper is crucial for China as the West restricts supplies, notably from Canada, analyst says Lithium and cobalt may have dominated the rush for critical minerals for EV batteries, solar and ...

Those proposed changes had already sparked new interest, with U.S. funding committed to develop the Lobito Corridor — a rail line to connect the DRC's land-locked "copper belt" with an Angolan ...

Donald Trump announced a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, brokered with Secretary of ...

Africa is the key new source, as output in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s famous copper-belt expands. But mines here are often controlled by Chinese interests.

Transportation infrastructure is also vital. The flagship U.S. engagement with the DRC has been the Lobito Corridor, a railway and transportation network that creates the fastest route for the export ...

Support for this rail link between the Congolese copper belt and Atlantic seaboard has continued through the Biden and Trump administrations. Instead, the prize for a minerals deal is likely to be ...

FILE - A man watches a conveyor belt loaded with chunks of raw cobalt after a first transformation at a plant in Lubumbashi, DRC, on Feb. 16, 2018, before being exported, mainly to China, to be ...

In November 2023, Ivanhoe reported an indicated resource of 16 million tonnes at 3.6% copper and an inferred resource of 154 million tonnes at 1.97% copper, based on a 1.5% copper cut-off.

CME has no registered brands of DRC copper and the LME has only two - "SCM" and "COMIKA". They represent 122,400 tons of annual production, which is a drop in Congo's copper production.

China's copper imports from DRC and Chile Chinese operators dominate Congo's copper belt and the flow of metal between the two countries is emerging as a new structural dynamic in the global market.