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Condition of the COMINIERE to AVZ in the ongoing negotiations; "withdrawal of the complaint in arbitration to the ICC"
"Célestin Kibeya would confirm ongoing discussions between his COMINIERE team and the leaders of AVZ MINERALS"
NEWSECONOMY
Now in the Manono lithium mega-project in the province of Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of Congo, nothing more, no scenario would now be excluded.
Since 2016, the year of the creation of the DATHCOM MINING joint venture by COMINIERE and the Chinese group DATHOMIR, which saw after 2017 the arrival of the Australians of AVZ MINERALS, that the project for the development of one of the richest lithium deposits in the world, failed to take off despite the feasibility studies carried out by AVZ MINERALS after its purchase of the 60% of DATHOMIR's shares in the joint venture.
Political interference of the old and new regime in the Manono project, not too Catholic management and collaborations between DATHCOM partners, commissions and retro-commissions have meant that today the partners of this joint venture all find themselves in one way or another in national and international judicial complaints.
Finally, the showdown between the then interim management of COMINIERE, which was confirmed by the Head of State, Félix Tshisekedi with Célestin Kibeya at the head, in particular the appointment as President of the Board of Directors of Lisette Tshibwabwa very close to the President of the Republic, who was notably involved in the sale of the 15% of the shares of the Congolese State to the Chinese of ZIJIN, in order to carry out the long-awaited production of the exploitation of Manono lithium by this new staff.
COMINIERE having almost recovered the 5% of the Mauritians of the MMCS, had actually owned 10% of the shares of DATHCOM and the majority of the shares divided between AVZ MINERALS and DATHOMIR.
Following the conflicts with the Australians of AVZ MINERALS, the management of the COMINIERE supported of course by the power of Kinshasa, has resolved to terminate the contract of the DATHCOM joint venture "in particular flouting the agreements" of 2017 between the partners, in order to leave with new contracts that would allow it to hold the majority of the Manono lithium project, after the sale of its own shares in the DATHCOM joint venture (according to the report of the General Inspectorate of Finance of the DR Congo).
"This termination of the contract on the initiative of COMINIERE SA took place on April 4, 2023, and following the consequences to be drawn from this termination, on April 7, 2023 COMINIERE SA sued the Mining Cadastre (CAMI) before the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Kalemie. It is in partial execution of judgment RC 381S/RH 0242 rendered by the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Kalemie on May 3, 2023 between it and CAMI, that PR 13359 formerly transferred to DATHCOM MINING SA under the contract for the transfer of research permits of January 13, 2017, was reinstated on behalf of COMINIERE SA.
On May 9, 2023, there was partial execution by CAMI of this judgment, since it was noted by the latter in its register that the other concessions transferred to DATHCOM MINING SA ended up with other holders. are found with other holders. We can read in an article in the weekly Géopolis of July 2023.
COMINIERE SA plans after its termination of the DATHCOM agreement, to sign three joint venture contracts on the entire 13359 permit of the Manono deposit, as well as to increase its financial revenues and the creation of several jobs than the DATHCOMM agreement of 2017, of course not considering the future final decision of the Paris arbitration to the CCI on the part of AVZ MINERALS.
For the engineer, Céléstin Kibeya General Manager of COMINIERE, "negotiations are reportedly underway with the Australian group of AVZ MINERALS", which is the majority shareholder in DATHCOM SA. But wanting to integrate COMINIERE SA alone in the new partnerships on Manono lithium, Céléstin Kibeya places a condition on Australians," that of the withdrawal of the complaint in arbitration in Paris with the CCI by AVZ MINERALS. “
Célestin Kibeya would confirm in particular that the discussions between his COMINIERE team and the leaders of AVZ MINERALS, would evolve in a good direction for both parties at the moment...
In reality, the facts show that, if COMINIERE ignored the arbitration in progress at the ICC, this decision would only have the effect of maintaining the status quo in the Manono lithium project, something that DR Congo should at all costs avoid seeing the new discoveries of lithium deposits in the world and the new techniques in the manufacture of batteries without the intervention of lithium.
According to Céléstin Kibeya, COMINIERE is aware of the problems and harm to its interests following a circumvention or ignored the Paris arbitration.
kongopress.com
Condition of the COMINIERE to AVZ in the ongoing negotiations; "withdrawal of the complaint in arbitration to the ICC"
"Célestin Kibeya would confirm ongoing discussions between his COMINIERE team and the leaders of AVZ MINERALS"
NEWSECONOMY
Condition of the COMINIERE to AVZ in the ongoing negotiations; "withdrawal of the complaint in arbitration to the ICC"
Now in the Manono lithium mega-project in the province of Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of Congo, nothing more, no scenario would now be excluded.
Since 2016, the year of the creation of the DATHCOM MINING joint venture by COMINIERE and the Chinese group DATHOMIR, which saw after 2017 the arrival of the Australians of AVZ MINERALS, that the project for the development of one of the richest lithium deposits in the world, failed to take off despite the feasibility studies carried out by AVZ MINERALS after its purchase of the 60% of DATHOMIR's shares in the joint venture.
Political interference of the old and new regime in the Manono project, not too Catholic management and collaborations between DATHCOM partners, commissions and retro-commissions have meant that today the partners of this joint venture all find themselves in one way or another in national and international judicial complaints.
Finally, the showdown between the then interim management of COMINIERE, which was confirmed by the Head of State, Félix Tshisekedi with Célestin Kibeya at the head, in particular the appointment as President of the Board of Directors of Lisette Tshibwabwa very close to the President of the Republic, who was notably involved in the sale of the 15% of the shares of the Congolese State to the Chinese of ZIJIN, in order to carry out the long-awaited production of the exploitation of Manono lithium by this new staff.
COMINIERE having almost recovered the 5% of the Mauritians of the MMCS, had actually owned 10% of the shares of DATHCOM and the majority of the shares divided between AVZ MINERALS and DATHOMIR.
Following the conflicts with the Australians of AVZ MINERALS, the management of the COMINIERE supported of course by the power of Kinshasa, has resolved to terminate the contract of the DATHCOM joint venture "in particular flouting the agreements" of 2017 between the partners, in order to leave with new contracts that would allow it to hold the majority of the Manono lithium project, after the sale of its own shares in the DATHCOM joint venture (according to the report of the General Inspectorate of Finance of the DR Congo).
"This termination of the contract on the initiative of COMINIERE SA took place on April 4, 2023, and following the consequences to be drawn from this termination, on April 7, 2023 COMINIERE SA sued the Mining Cadastre (CAMI) before the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Kalemie. It is in partial execution of judgment RC 381S/RH 0242 rendered by the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Kalemie on May 3, 2023 between it and CAMI, that PR 13359 formerly transferred to DATHCOM MINING SA under the contract for the transfer of research permits of January 13, 2017, was reinstated on behalf of COMINIERE SA.
On May 9, 2023, there was partial execution by CAMI of this judgment, since it was noted by the latter in its register that the other concessions transferred to DATHCOM MINING SA ended up with other holders. are found with other holders. We can read in an article in the weekly Géopolis of July 2023.
COMINIERE SA plans after its termination of the DATHCOM agreement, to sign three joint venture contracts on the entire 13359 permit of the Manono deposit, as well as to increase its financial revenues and the creation of several jobs than the DATHCOMM agreement of 2017, of course not considering the future final decision of the Paris arbitration to the CCI on the part of AVZ MINERALS.
For the engineer, Céléstin Kibeya General Manager of COMINIERE, "negotiations are reportedly underway with the Australian group of AVZ MINERALS", which is the majority shareholder in DATHCOM SA. But wanting to integrate COMINIERE SA alone in the new partnerships on Manono lithium, Céléstin Kibeya places a condition on Australians," that of the withdrawal of the complaint in arbitration in Paris with the CCI by AVZ MINERALS. “
Célestin Kibeya would confirm in particular that the discussions between his COMINIERE team and the leaders of AVZ MINERALS, would evolve in a good direction for both parties at the moment...
In reality, the facts show that, if COMINIERE ignored the arbitration in progress at the ICC, this decision would only have the effect of maintaining the status quo in the Manono lithium project, something that DR Congo should at all costs avoid seeing the new discoveries of lithium deposits in the world and the new techniques in the manufacture of batteries without the intervention of lithium.
According to Céléstin Kibeya, COMINIERE is aware of the problems and harm to its interests following a circumvention or ignored the Paris arbitration.
Condition de la COMINIERE à AVZ dans les négociations en cours ; « retrait de la plainte en arbitrage à la CCI » - Kongo Presse
Céléstin Kibeya pose aux Australiens une condition, " celle du retrait de la plainte en arbitrage à Paris auprès de la CCI par AVZ MINERALS. Célestin Kibeya confirmerait notamment que les discussions entre son équipe de la COMINIERE et les dirigeants d'AVZ MINERALS, évolueraient dans un bon sens...
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https://geopolismagazine.net/drc-af...eu-75-des-parts-dans-dathcom-en-liquidation/#
The creation of a battery metal value chain will help Africa in general and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) achieve its long-term vision. To achieve the African Union Agenda 2063 of creating “the Africa we want”, it is important that the continent commits to creating a battery metals value chain. As one of the leading producers
global battery metals including cobalt and very soon lithium from Manono, the DRC is the key to realizing this vision. On Wednesday, September 20, around 1 p.m. Kinshasa time, during the session dedicated to stakeholder interventions entitled “What you need to know about the batteries and metals industry”, Mr. Serge Ngandu, Director of Corporate Affairs of AVZ Minerals RDC, presenting the project to the audience, declared, regarding the Manono lithium project, that “discussions are very advanced with the Government of the DRC today on this very sustainable project, economically profitable with a clear vision on clean energy and community development.” And continued: “AVZ is committed to developing the Manono project according to the highest ESG standards and becoming a significant contributor to the global lithium-ion battery value chain. ”
Before this exercise, Mr. Serge Ngandu had started by presenting the DATHCOM MINING SA project to the investors present in the room but unfortunately, he had expressly talked about the para-public COMINIERE SA.
An attitude which provoked the anger of Célestin Kibeya Kabemba, formerly its General Director present in the Capitol of the Kin Plazza by Rotana hotel like all the other partners, investors, experts and researchers interested in this mega project.
Taking the first floor in the part devoted to the question and answer game, the boss of COMINIERE SA promptly asked (demanded) the Director of Corporate Affairs of AVZ to correct his remarks and above all, not to ignore the existence of COMINIERE SA as representative of the interests of the Congolese State in the Manono project. Before asserting that DATHCOM has already been legally dissolved. The same applies to the termination of the Joint Venture contract between AVZ and DATHCOM MINING SA, which is in the process of being liquidated for the benefit of COMINIERE SA since April 4, 2023. But unfortunately, maintains the CEO Célestin Kibeya, M Serge Ngandu hid this today from the participants of the DRC Africa Battery Metals Forum. “AVZ never had 75% of the shares in DATHCOM MINING SA,” he insisted.
It should be noted that Congolaise de l'exploitation minière, acronym COMINIERE SA, is a limited commercial company under OHADA business law. It is a young company created on April 12, 2010 following the decision of the General Assembly of shareholders namely, the Ministry of the Portfolio and the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), currently the National Social Security Fund (CNSS) . The share capital of COMINIERE SA is 90% held by the Congolese State through the Ministry of Portfolio and 10% by the CNSS.
Dieudonné Buanali
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DRC Africa Battery Metals Forum: Célestin Kibeya reframes Serge Ngandu on the Manono lithium file – AVZ never had 75% of the shares in DATHCOM in liquidation
https://geopolismagazine.net/drc-af...eu-75-des-parts-dans-dathcom-en-liquidation/#
The creation of a battery metal value chain will help Africa in general and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) achieve its long-term vision. To achieve the African Union Agenda 2063 of creating “the Africa we want”, it is important that the continent commits to creating a battery metals value chain. As one of the leading producers
global battery metals including cobalt and very soon lithium from Manono, the DRC is the key to realizing this vision. On Wednesday, September 20, around 1 p.m. Kinshasa time, during the session dedicated to stakeholder interventions entitled “What you need to know about the batteries and metals industry”, Mr. Serge Ngandu, Director of Corporate Affairs of AVZ Minerals RDC, presenting the project to the audience, declared, regarding the Manono lithium project, that “discussions are very advanced with the Government of the DRC today on this very sustainable project, economically profitable with a clear vision on clean energy and community development.” And continued: “AVZ is committed to developing the Manono project according to the highest ESG standards and becoming a significant contributor to the global lithium-ion battery value chain. ”
Before this exercise, Mr. Serge Ngandu had started by presenting the DATHCOM MINING SA project to the investors present in the room but unfortunately, he had expressly talked about the para-public COMINIERE SA.
An attitude which provoked the anger of Célestin Kibeya Kabemba, formerly its General Director present in the Capitol of the Kin Plazza by Rotana hotel like all the other partners, investors, experts and researchers interested in this mega project.
Taking the first floor in the part devoted to the question and answer game, the boss of COMINIERE SA promptly asked (demanded) the Director of Corporate Affairs of AVZ to correct his remarks and above all, not to ignore the existence of COMINIERE SA as representative of the interests of the Congolese State in the Manono project. Before asserting that DATHCOM has already been legally dissolved. The same applies to the termination of the Joint Venture contract between AVZ and DATHCOM MINING SA, which is in the process of being liquidated for the benefit of COMINIERE SA since April 4, 2023. But unfortunately, maintains the CEO Célestin Kibeya, M Serge Ngandu hid this today from the participants of the DRC Africa Battery Metals Forum. “AVZ never had 75% of the shares in DATHCOM MINING SA,” he insisted.
It should be noted that Congolaise de l'exploitation minière, acronym COMINIERE SA, is a limited commercial company under OHADA business law. It is a young company created on April 12, 2010 following the decision of the General Assembly of shareholders namely, the Ministry of the Portfolio and the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), currently the National Social Security Fund (CNSS) . The share capital of COMINIERE SA is 90% held by the Congolese State through the Ministry of Portfolio and 10% by the CNSS.
Dieudonné Buanali
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Xerof
Biding my Time 1971
The guy in the top photo is the same one as in the bottom photo but not the guy in the middle.
What was the occasion for the bottom photo? Was that the Z visit to 15575?
The top is obviously the stoning ceremony for the new office, with bag handling facilities out the back
What was the occasion for the bottom photo? Was that the Z visit to 15575?
The top is obviously the stoning ceremony for the new office, with bag handling facilities out the back
Dave Evans
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To be honest X, I don’t know. I just had the photos on my phone and wanted to dump them on here so I could delete them from my phone but still be able to reference them if I needed
Xerof
Biding my Time 1971
Ok found the connection. That cunt was on site at ‘15575’ and at the stoner party for COMINIERE bag factory, representing Zijin
Dave Evans
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Looks like his X profile might be at the Mpiana Mwanga hydro power station
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Célestin Kibeya Kabemba
Kibeya has been deeply involved in the corrupt dealings impacting Dathcom. Prior to his role as acting MD given the detainment of his predecessor KIBEYA was Cominiere's Technical Director / Chief Operating Officer.
Documentation presented by journalists and civil society actors in 2022 *including minutes of Cominiere board meetings* showed he was one of those involved in orchestrating the Zijin theft of the 15%, for which the deposit has disappeared into various pockets. its believed he was behind the two mysteriously identical yet allegedly independent valuations of the 15% supporting that looting effort by providing documentation undervaluing that in comparison to the DFS data.
He's also thought to have existing relations with Zijin through previous links with Kamoa Copper which no doubt helped facilitate their entry into this game - so he should be considered one of the architects of our drama along with the other two Cominiere officials, DG Cami, MOP, etc.
He's also faced accusations over corruption with relation to the United Cominiere / Tantalex case with Eric Allard, with his signature co-signing against various dodgy deeds. Along with other various scandals.
Dave Evans
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Lithium Manono: US$200,000 for 2 mining squares in 2017 to COMFORCE/Jason Brewer, 2021 they go to ZIJIN/Katamba Mining!
May 2, 2023Kiki Kienge
Manono’s lithium file is like a Chinese box, once you open the first one, it hides a second one and this one a third one, all of which keep secrets on contract files, share transfers, selling prices and others.
The DR Congo so far has not yet started the exploitation of one of the largest lithium deposits in the world, which should start normally this year, following the suspension of the DATHCOM exploitation permit by the Minister of Mines, Antoinette Nsamba Kalambayi .
At the moment the DATHCOM file, joint venture of COMINIERE with AVZ Minerals and DATHOMIR and that of the Sino-Congolese contract, seem to have taken over all the mining files in the media and even for the Congolese authorities.
But COMINIERE having signed several joint venture contracts with other partners on mining squares containing lithium, today we wanted to analyze the one with the company, Force Commodities RDC.
Force Commodities RDC, which was headquartered at the time of signing the contract with COMINIERE in the Crow Tower building at the intersection of Boulevard du 30 juin and Batetela in the commune of Gombe, is a company owned by the Australian, Jason Brewer which notably owns other companies involved in the development and development of mining projects in Africa.
On November 11, 2017 COMINIERE, a Congolese State company, signs a joint venture contract with Force Commodities RDC, the same contract will be certified at the commercial court on October 16, 2020 as you will see in the photo. From this agreement came COMFORCE, a joint venture between the two companies with a capital of US$100,000 for 1,000 shares, distributed as follows.
- COMINIERE: 30%
- Strength Commodities: 70%
- US$50,000 at the date of signing.
- US$150,000 in three installments of US$50,000 every three months from the date of signing the contract.
Force Commodities had the mission to study and identify a good technology to process Lithium, Niobium, Tantalum, Wolframite and Tin in its two perimeters.
In November 2018 Force Commodities had even applied for the transformation of an exploration permit for its Kitotolo-Katamba lithium project in Tanganyika into a mining permit for 30 years at the Ministry of Mines.
But here in August 2021, the Chinese mining giant, ZIJIN signed a cooperation agreement with COMINIERE for two perimeters; the first is that of Force Commodities, the PR12453 and the second the "PE13427" according to the site of the ZIJIN group, thus creating Katamba Mining joint venture between ZIJIN and COMINIERE.
Strangely enough, on the list of COMINIERE partnerships, there is no permit that does not correspond to the number 13427, but there is indeed a mining square with the number 13247 on the list, which oddly is the one that belongs in particular to Force Commoditie in the contract signed with COMINIERE!
- Is it the same permit?
- How much were they valued at the time of sale by COMINIERE?
- Who was the seller, COMINIERE or Force Commodities?
- How much are the two mining squares worth today?
- In 2017, the Australians of AVZ Minerals for a purchase of 60% of the shares of DATHCOM from DATHOMIR, they had to pay 6,000,000 $US to COMINIERE and 750,000 $US to DATHOMIR, to then spend 75 million $US for the feasibility study and initial work in Manono.
- In 2017, Force Commodities paid US$200,000 to own 70% of the two licenses in Manono, to achieve nothing so far.
QUESTIONING
- Why this feeling of disinterestedness of the Congolese authorities on its two perimeters which contain lithium and Katamba Mining of which the DR Congo owns 30%?
- If ZIJIN is a shareholder of Katamba Mining with 70%, in order not to invest in the two mining squares for the exploitation of lithium, what to insist on the 15% of DATHCOM?
- How did ZIJIN come into possession of the 70% of Katamba Mining and how much did he pay?
Archives des Economie - Kongo Presse
@Xerof replied to Kiki’s post….
Kiki does a great job, but he's years behind the eight ball on that Zijin news release. We have discussed that article every groundhog day since it was published, and determined:
Firstly, we observed that Zijin were reluctant to specify EXACTLY which tenements they "purchased shares from COMINIERE" in. Of course it was 13359, and they knew it was illegal. They only started mentioning it when they were outed
Secondly, they made a typo when mentioning the Cooperation Agreement signed with COMINIERE and wrote 13427 instead of 13247. This was never corrected. I think that was a genuine error
Some of you here held shares in Force I think. Do any of you know how they lost those tenements? I seem to recall they just walked away, saying there was nothing of interest found, but would be happy for Kiki to uncover more dodgy manoeuvres between those two
Cohen seems to also be confused saying the request for an extension by ICC will be refused, as in fact it has already been agreed to - now September/October, as announced by AVZ a couple of weeks ago. But I agree with his sentiment - they are running scared, delaying and will lose badly
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Manono lithium: where are we with the two mining licenses - PE12453 and PE13427 of KATAMBA MINING of which ZIJIN holds 70%?
July 10, 2023Kiki Kienge
Why since the creation of KATAMBA MINING, the Chinese ZIJIN group with its potential so praised even by the interim director of the COMINIERE,Célestin Kibeya is already starting the exploitation of lithium from these two sites?
These two mining licenses, PE12453 and PE13427 referring to two mining areas on the outskirts of the Manono lithium mine in the DRC, owned by DATHCOM, licenses that belonged to Jason Brewer's force Commodities DRC (COMFORCE).
For the exploitation of lithium from its operating areas, in 2020 the Congolese State through its portfolio ministry created a joint venture with the Chinese group ZIJIN and COMINIERE, KATAMBA MINING, respectively with 70% (ZIJIN) and 30% (COMINIERE) of the shares in the joint venture of Congolese lithium exploitation.
"To improve its competitiveness in minerals essential for the transition to renewable energies, Zijin Mining, through its DRC team, strengthened its cooperation with COMINIERE last August. In addition to buying shares in certain mining projects belonging to COMINIERE, Zijin has signed a cooperation agreement with the company to jointly develop two mining licenses - PE12453 and PE13427 on the periphery of the Manono lithium mine in the DRC. Zijin holds a 70% stake in Katamba Mining and has obtained the exploration and development rights to two new projects on the per The ZIJIN group declared in May 2022.
In reality, the two permits PE12453 and PE13427, which cover about 435 square kilometers, are on important metallogenic belts and have good mineralization conditions and prospects for discovery, are an extension of the Manono mine of PE13359 with a potential of lithium-niobium-tantal pegmatite deposits, of which AVZ MINERALS has fully carried out the feasibility study
Until today, the population of Manono speaks of a non-take-off of work on both sites, because ZIJIN and the COMINIERE seem to be only interested in DATHCOM's 13359 permit, whose majority shareholder is AVZ MINERALS.