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Spotlight | DRC
Glencore and Trafigura caught in Katanga tangle

The elections scheduled in 2017 to determine Congo-K president Joseph Kabila's successor are disrupting the country's economy. The unsettling climate is taking its toll on trading firms Glencore and Trafigura, who dominate copper and cobalt trading in Katanga.Trafigura settles its [...]

Published on 09/05/2017 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Anvil Mining
Caroline Daout
China Molybdenum Co
Dan Gertler
DLA Piper
Gecamines
George Forrest International
Glencore
James McCormack
Joseph Kabila
Maxim van Buggenhout
Moise Katumbi
NB Mining
Necotrans
Shamrock Global Group
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US judge rejects shareholders' class action over DRC corruption allegations involving Glencore and Dan Gertler

Glencore's American shareholders, who are seeking compensation for stock exchange losses they claim resulted from suspicions of corruption in the DRC mining sector involving the trading group and businessman Dan Gertler, have had their case dimissed by a US court.

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Glencore wants Swiss not US courts to rule on shareholder dispute

Lawyers of the Swiss trading house Glencore, of its CEO Ivan Glasenberg and of its CFO Steven Kalmin, are waiting [...]

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Lubumbashi slag heap processing unit back in action

Idle since 2017 following the heated scuffle between George Forrest international and Gécamines, the Lubumbashi tailings processing unit is up and running again.

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DRC
Moise Katumbi: his friends, his allies, his networks

Though not the only candidate in the next (as yet unconfirmed) presidential election, the ex-governor of Katanga seems to have the most extensive networks.

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DRC
Kinsevere paralysed by battle of the service companies

MCSC and NB Mining, both of whom are subcontractors of MMG, owner of the Katanga copper mine Kinsevere, are in the midst of a heated legal battle.

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DRC
Moise Katumbi's demands for NB Mining rejected in Paris

The offshore companies that had requested for the sale of Necotrans' mining unit to Pascal Beveraggi to be cancelled, have had their case rejected by a French court.

Subscribers only Mining 26.12.2017

DRC
Shamrock makes its clash with Gecamines official

With its cobalt, copper and zinc project in Lubumbashi in a gridlock, Shamrock has filed for arbitration against Gecamines.

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DRC
Shamrock makes its clash with Gecamines official

As Africa Mining Intelligence had anticipated (AMI nº401), South African firm Shamrock Global Group filed for an emergency arbitration hearing [...]

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DRC
Moise Katumbi's activism in Katanga mining services

Joseph Kabila's rival has reportedly sold his shares in services company Rulco, even as he opposes Necotrans' sale of his former company MCK.

Subscribers only Mining 31.10.2017

DRC
Mining expert-cum-lobbyist Rick Gittleman launches consultancy firm

Rick Gittleman, the former legal counsel at Glencore, recently inaugurated [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.10.2017

DRC
Emirati Pan Global also takes a swipe at Gecamines

Disappointed by the quantities and quality of the copper supplied [...]

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Spotlight | DRC
Gecamines caught up in own double play between Forrest and Shamrock in Lubumbashi

The conflict waging between George Forrest International (GFI) and Congolese state-run firm Gecamines for control of the Lubumbashi slag heap (AMI 391) conceals another, more strategic, tug-of-war. When it had evicted GFI from the slag heap, Gecamines is reported to [.

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Maxim van Buggenhout
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Lubumbashi slag heap processing unit back in action

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Kinsevere paralysed by battle of the service companies

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Moise Katumbi's demands for NB Mining rejected in Paris

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Shamrock makes its clash with Gecamines official

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Shamrock makes its clash with Gecamines official

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Moise Katumbi's activism in Katanga mining services

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George Forrest wants second bout against Gecamines in Brussels

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Anvil Mining to fall into hands of Galena/Trafigura

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DRC Glencore wants Swiss not US courts to rule on shareholder dispute

DRC Lubumbashi slag heap processing unit back in action

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DRC Kinsevere paralysed by battle of the service companies

DRC Moise Katumbi's demands for NB Mining rejected in Paris

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DRC Shamrock makes its clash with Gecamines official

DRC Moise Katumbi's activism in Katanga mining services

DRC Mining expert-cum-lobbyist Rick Gittleman launches consultancy firm

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DRC DRC Mining Week 2017: Gecamines invents production-sharing for mines

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Spotlight | DRC Is Dan Gertler facing his last days in oil?

DRC CMOC resists what it sees as Gecamines putsch at Tenke

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Spotlight | DRC
Glencore and Trafigura caught in Katanga tangle

DRC
US judge rejects shareholders' class action over DRC corruption allegations involving Glencore and Dan Gertler

DRC
Glencore wants Swiss not US courts to rule on shareholder dispute

DRC
Lubumbashi slag heap processing unit back in action

DRC
Moise Katumbi: his friends, his allies, his networks

DRC
Kinsevere paralysed by battle of the service companies

DRC
Moise Katumbi's demands for NB Mining rejected in Paris

DRC
Shamrock makes its clash with Gecamines official

DRC
Shamrock makes its clash with Gecamines official

DRC
Moise Katumbi's activism in Katanga mining services

DRC
Mining expert-cum-lobbyist Rick Gittleman launches consultancy firm

DRC
Emirati Pan Global also takes a swipe at Gecamines

Spotlight | DRC
Gecamines caught up in own double play between Forrest and Shamrock in Lubumbashi

Guinea
With one foot in bauxite, Ashapura places the other in diamonds

DRC
Will Glencore help out with Kolwezi's airport?

DRC
DRC Mining Week 2017: Gecamines invents production-sharing for mines

DRC
George Forrest wants second bout against Gecamines in Brussels

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Necotrans sheds ports but holds on to mines

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China flexes its muscles in Copperbelt

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Is Dan Gertler facing his last days in oil?

DRC
CMOC resists what it sees as Gecamines putsch at Tenke

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Anvil Mining to fall into hands of Galena/Trafigura

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Kabila fills his Katanga basket fund