Aug. 4 at 5:00 p.m. Correspondent Katharine Houreld and photographer Arlette Bashizi traveled together across southeastern Congo, visiting industrial and artisanal mines in the country’s three ...

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Congo--For eight years, a Chinese mining company has been vastly ... It also has vast mineral wealth such as gold and diamonds. The original boundaries of the reserve ...

It’s been 15 years since the global effort to ban conflict diamonds began. But the industry is still tainted by conflict and misery Story by Aryn Baker/Tshikapa Photographs by Lynsey Addario for ...

Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their rich veins are making a mint for the Rwanda-backed M23. In the tracts of ...

Tin prices jumped to eight-month highs on Thursday after Alphamin Resources said it would temporarily cease operations at its Bisie tin mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to unrest ...

DR Congo is home to copper, cobalt, zinc, uranium, diamonds, tantalum ... region and they are reportedly fighting for control of mining areas. More than 700 people have been killed in fighting ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo says it’s suspending cobalt exports for four months to rein in oversupply of the battery metal on the international market. Cobalt production in Congo – which ...

M23 offensives follow a clear logic: they want to gain control of the region's minerals — mainly gold, cassiterite, coltan, ...

Norinco has now proposed that the Democratic Republic of the Congo increase its interest in Chemaf's Mutoshi and Etoile mines to as much as 15% from 5% currently - at no additional cost - subject ...