DRC natural resources press review of Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Gold Society Kivu - Maniema ( Sakima ) revived the activities of mining in Kalima , city located 101 km from the town of Kindu ( Maniema ) after 17 years of inactivity. On the ground, about 22 tons of cassiterite enfûtées are ready for export, listing Radio Okapi.

The open pit Namoya , the second gold mine company Banro Corporation located on the gold belt Twangiza - Namoya , produced its first gold at December 30, 2013 , informs the Agency Ecofin which tells that on December 31 , the Canadian company reported production of 320 ounces, while the construction of the plant at the mine will accelerate to its start in the first quarter of 2014 and commercial production before the end of the second quarter. According to John Clarke , President and CEO , this is a milestone for the company and a major success for DR Congo who presents himself as a country where we can find , fund and build successful new mines gold. Namoya is in DR Congo , the second mine the company to go into production and will allow Banro Corp from an annual production of 100,000 to over 225,000 ounces of gold.

The Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC ) are charged to the poaching of elephants, in complicity with traditional leaders in Malemba Nkulu , over 700 km from Lubumbashi in Katanga, Radio Okapi says . The provincial director of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN ) in Katanga, Mbayo Lukasa , denounced , Saturday, Jan. 4 . Mbayo Lukasa opposes the idea to kill these pachyderms to recover ivory in favor of Treasury and wishes rather than Malembankulu administrator , supervisor ICCN and the NRA to go on site a report.
" Capital flight , the DRC among the ten most affected African countries," reports the edition of Kinshasa of Dépêches de Brazzaville notes : " The country is ranked at the 10th position among the fifty most affected by the phenomenon , and the 52nd World position with average annual leakage estimated at 1.5 billion U.S. dollars , according to the report of the American NGO global Financial Integrity released in December 2013.