by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 19, 2023 | Lifestyle
A mining town breathes in time with the gate at its edge. When the metal stops moving, the effect is not confined to a balance sheet; it is felt in the traffic on the road, the trade at the market and the mood of a place built around a single industry. So when CMOC...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 19, 2023 | Economics
The Democratic Republic of Congo holds the raw material the world’s battery economy cannot do without, yet for the better part of a year a slice of that supply sat where it was mined. Copper and cobalt stockpiled behind a gate at Tenke Fungurume rather than...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 19, 2023 | Farming
The same trucks that carry copper out of Katanga carry very little back in for the farmer. That quiet imbalance frames what the Tenke Fungurume settlement means beyond the mine gate. Today CMOC and Gécamines have settled the royalty dispute that had frozen exports,...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 19, 2023 | Content
In a story this consequential, the discipline that matters most is knowing what can actually be verified today, and refusing to report the rest. As of 19 April 2023, the verifiable core is narrow and firm: CMOC and Gécamines have reached a settlement over royalties at...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 29, 2022 | Economics
The Democratic Republic of Congo lifts more cobalt from the ground than any country on earth, yet almost none of the value inside a finished battery is booked in Kinshasa or Kolwezi. The metal leaves as concentrate and returns, when it returns at all, sealed inside...