INTERNATIONAL BARYTEX RESOURCES LTD. advises that in regard to the contract review process the Democratic Republic of Congo (”DRC”) is undertaking, East China Capital Holdings Ltd (”ECCH”), a subsidiary controlled by the Company, has received a proposal from Generale des Carrieres et des Mines (Gecamines) to revise the Gecamines-ECCH agreement in regard to the Shituru [...]

Anvil Mining’s Kinsevere-Nambulwa copper-cobalt deposits, 27 km north of Lubumbashi, the provincial capital of the Katanga Province of the DRC are, like so much of that region, looking very promising. The Measured and Indicated mineral resource has been increased by over 400% to 865,300 t of contained copper. AMCK, a joint venture company formed by [...]

An increase in known high-grade copper deposits has been unveiled in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga Province where an updated Mineral Reources Estimate has revealed a 31 percent increase in mineralisation.
TSX and AVM-quoted Anvil Mining Limited, headquartered in Australia, said Wednesday that its latest resource update is based on a revised geological interpretation and [...]

Uranium is being mined illegally at a site in Congo that provided the radioactive material for the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, U.N. experts reported on Thursday.
The Shinkolobwe mine in mineral-rich Katanga province in southwestern Congo was ordered shut down by U.N. investigators in 2004 who found it unsafe to operate.
The investigators, [...]

Landmark elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this month could usher in a mining boom for the country whose mineral riches in the past have produced as much war, corruption and misery as wealth.
The July 30 polls are seen as a crucial step in bucking a historical trend in the DRC: from the [...]

Katanga Mining Limited (TSX: KAT) (”Katanga” “Company”) announced that an official signing ceremony was held on June 27, 2006, at the Kamoto mine site in the Democratic Republic of Congo (”DRC”), to commemorate the formation of the Kamoto joint venture and transfer of the Kamoto mining assets from La Generale des Carrieres et des Mines [...]