Belgian museum caught in row over millions of DR Congo records
KoBold Metals and DR Congo are pushing a Brussels museum to release records that would help map valuable metals
KoBold Metals and DR Congo are pushing a Brussels museum to release records that would help map valuable metals

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

The Democratic Republic of Congo wants access to colonial-era geological data held in Belgium. A US mining startup says it can…

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

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

Financier Gentry Beach in talks over Rubaya coltan mine as Washington dangles investments to accompany end to regional conflict