Donald Trump ally seeks to snap up DR Congo mine as US brokers peace deal
Financier Gentry Beach in talks over Rubaya coltan mine as Washington dangles investments to accompany end to regional conflict
Financier Gentry Beach in talks over Rubaya coltan mine as Washington dangles investments to accompany end to regional conflict

Central African nations ink deals giving US companies access to Kinshasa’s minerals and seeking to end 30 years of conflict

Acquisition will create first major American-owned mine in the African country in more than a decade

Washington lobbies African nation to award sale of copper and cobalt producer to consortium led by US group Virtus

New stockpiles of cobalt, coltan and germanium are latest step by African countries for greater leverage over metals

Security force backed by US and UAE aims to drive investment in the African nation’s resource sector

World’s biggest producer of key battery metal tries to support prices that have tumbled about 60% in three years