One of the four delegates said the stockpiles may peak in June, since it typically takes four months for cobalt to reach Chinese ports from mines in Congo. Patrick Luabeya, head of Congo's ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo may impose ... and demand of cobalt,” Luabeya said. He also said the agency would consult industry players in June regarding the ban. Mines Minister Kizito ...

Unlike nickel and lithium, cobalt is primarily produced as a byproduct — mostly from copper mines in the DRC and nickel mines in Indonesia, said Bloomberg News. Congo suspended exports for four months ...

Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, as hundreds of men labor by hand to extract coltan, a key mineral crucial f ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Chinese cobalt smelters have ample supplies of the battery-making material despite the export ban imposed by the world's top producer, the Democratic Republic of Congo, in late ...

CHINESE high tech enterprise, Huayou Cobalt (Huayou) is placing significant emphasis on its Arcadia Lithium Mine, as it progresses with a lithium sulfate project expected to lower production costs.

Gécamines SA, Congo's state-owned mining company, has filed an application to acquire a division of Chemaf Resources Ltd. a few months after announcing its intention to block the sale of the copper ...

Besides lithium, the central African nation is the world’s second-largest source of copper and biggest producer of the electric-vehicle battery metal cobalt. Any final deal for the lithium ...

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“Our role is to facilitate those private sector investments” in the mining sector, including with American government funding, he said. DR Congo is the world’s number one supplier of cobalt ...