ZIJIN OPERATING IN THE DRC

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Reports from multiple media sources indicate that Chinese mining conglomerate Zijin Mining operating in DRC has committed bribery, illegal fraud, threatening Mines.cd founding journalist with death, human rights violations in Kolwezi, evicting residents from homes in Kolwezi, negligence resulting in workers death, performing mining works without technical documentation and approval of the competent authority and polluting a Serbian village.

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Lithium Manono: How is ZIJIN with the illegal 15% (IGF) part of DATHCOM without any court decision?

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Lithium Manono : Comment ZIJIN avec les 15% illégaux (IGF) fait-elle partie de DATHCOM sans aucune...

https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...f+DRC+Mining+Assets+by+COMINIERE+SA+-+ENG.pdf


Stéphie Mukinzi was threatened with death for her investigations into the living conditions of the population around the mines of the Chinese groups, Ruashi Mining and ZIJIN



COMMUS, a subsidiary of Zijin Mining, accused of serious human rights violations in Kolwezi

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Le Chinois ZIJIN MINING se moque de la politique minière de Félix Tshisekedi : COMMUS, une...


In Kolwezi in the Lualaba province where more than 39,000 people live. Hundreds of residents have received orders to leave their homes without being consulted after the plans to expand the ZIJIN mine. Many houses have already been destroyed

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Rapport d'Amnesty International sur les minerais des batteries et les droits humains bafoués en RDC...


Zijin’s Negligence: How the Demolition of the Smelter Cost a Worker His Life

https://cins.rs/en/zijin-s-negligence-how-the-demolition-of-the-smelter-cost-a-worker-his-life/


In less than a year, the company Zijin was convicted four times for the same commercial offence, each time fined below the legal minimum

https://reri.org.rs/en/in-less-than-a-year-the-company-zijin-was-convicted-four-times-for-the-same-commercial-offence-each-time-fined-below-the-legal-minimum/#:~:text=News%20%2F%20Zijin%20Copper-,In%20less%20than%20a%20year%2C%20the%20company%20Zijin%20was%20convicted,the%20legal%20minimum%20each%20time.

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In less than a year, the company Zijin was convicted four times for the same commercial offence,...


China’s Zijin mine polluting Serbian village

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China’s Zijin Mining Polluting Serbian Village, Says Group
 
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Dave Evans

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Stéphie Mukinzi was threatened with death for her investigations into the living conditions of the population around the mines of the Chinese groups, Ruashi Mining and ZIJIN

 
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28/09/2023

Chinese State-owned Zijin Mining Under International Scrutiny​

Its track record is tainted by allegations of labor exploitation, environmental damage, and safety deficiencies. But beyond its operations, Zijin’s close relationship with the Chinese Communist Party casts an additional shadow over its actions in nations with loose regulations, Argentine news site Infobae reported.

 
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More deaths at Zijin operated mines in Africa (Provided by Dominic Furfaro on Twitter)


Guyana labor ministry investigates death at Zijin gold mine​

Reuters | November 27, 2023 | 11:30 am

Silvercorp to buy Guyana Goldfields in C$105m-deal

Aurora gold mine in Guyana. (Image courtesy of Guyana Goldfields.)

Guyana’s labor ministry on Monday said it was investigating the death of a truck operator earlier this month at the country’s north-western Aurora Gold Mines, operated by China’s Zijin.
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The ministry said the death had resulted from a collision between two truck operators from a Chinese state-owned engineering company at the mine on Saturday, Nov. 18.

Labor Minister Joseph Hamilton in a statement expressed his concern about workplace fatalities and encouraged workers and employers to ensure a safe working environment.

The incident happened days before an overhang collapsed at concession belonging to a Zijin subsidiary in nearby Suriname, causing the deaths of 15 informal gold miners, according to Surinamese authorities, and prompting two days of national mourning.

The subsidiary, Rosebel Gold Mines, said at the time it regretted the deaths and had unsuccessfully tried to evict the informal miners.

Elsewhere in South America, a 2021 Reuters investigation showed that some tunnels in Zijin’s Buritica concession in Colombia are controlled by the Clan del Golfo crime gang, which buys output from informal miners working there.
(By Sarah Morland)

 
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Tanganyika: the suspension of Manono Lithium's activities is debated

The governor of Tanganyika province suspends the quarrying activities of the mining company Manono Lithium for an indefinite period.

She criticizes this Chinese company for non-payment of taxes without specifying them.

Civil society actors in Manono are demanding more transparency from the authorities in the measures they take.

The provincial authority expressed its decision in a decree signed on January 6.

According to this document, “The Manono Lithium company exploits gravel, rubble, and sand without authorization from the province”.

In addition, says the governor, the company does not pay state taxes.

Quarry work on behalf of the company Manono Lithium is suspended for non-payment of taxes due to the province and lack of prior authorization.

In addition, this measure applies to the transport and use of construction materials.

Transparency!

Manono's company, for its part, is asking the provincial authority for a little more precision in the accusations made against this company.

Dieu Merci Kabila, coordinator of the Dynamic Christian Integration Regroupment, demands more transparency.

”We met this Wednesday with the administrator of the territory of Manono to try to understand this dispute.

What taxes does the company not pay?

However, we have information that Manono Lithium pays fees to the service of SAEMAP.

This gives the impression that the money is not reaching the state coffers.

This is why, at the community level, we do not see any benefits from our mineral wealth.

And to continue, the territorial authority has undertaken to provide us with this information this Friday.

The civil society of Manono reminds that companies have the obligation to pay taxes.

For its part, the State should improve the business climate.

Manono Lithium is a Chinese company which is in the Lithium exploration phase.

She has just opened a road of almost 3 km which leads to her accommodation site.

With the suspension of activities, nearly 200 local agents have been made unemployed.

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At the heart of the battle for control of Manono lithium by China in the Democratic Republic of Congo:​

February 19, 2023 Jeef Kazadi
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  • What does the Chinese company Zijin actually want from the Congolese Cominière SA and Dathcom Mining?
  • Who are the key players in a hostile takeover that looks like a toxic robbery? Decryption
(By Simon Bofunga, Jeef Kazadi, Ben Khaya)

China first, Congolese people ignored​

As in the copper, cobalt and zinc sector of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where this Chinese company is at Kamoa-Kakula and Kipushi Company with Ivanhoe Mines, at Compagnie Minière de Musonoie with Gécamines as well as other Chinese GEC who control the industrial copper and cobalt of the country at Sicomines (Chinese Contract or Contract Mines against Infrastructures) and block the General Company of Cobalt to continue to also control copper and cobalt crafts, by the Chinese from Kolwezi called ''SOLEIL'' (he is reputed to be the true king of mining crafts and casions in upper Katanga and Lualaba, according to LICOCO which carried out a survey in the two provinces with the Presidential Anti-Corruption Agency– APLC for at least six months), with Congolese accomplices who are members of the institutions of the Republic, Zijin who never invests in mining exploration and research, like any good Chinese in Africa, but excels in violations of laws and of human rights in China and in host countries, wants to help China get its hands on Manono's lithium thanks to Congolese service and non-patriots interested in the illicit enrichment facilitated by the famous Chinese of the country.

From Perth to Manono: Max Pro 1.0 remake of the battle for control of KML at KCC​

After failing to buy several stock shares of AVZ on the Australian Stock Exchange in Perth and after failing to pressure other shareholder Chinese companies ( Huayou and CATHL ) to enter the shareholding of Dathcom Mining by irregularly buying shares of Cominière SA to control the largest lithium deposit in the world thanks to the vigilance of the Australian stock market regulator – AVZ has more than 21,000 shareholders from several nationalities and continents including Americans, Australians, Europeans, Chinese, etc. .-, and after having failed in its attempt to directly buy 15% of Cominière SA in Dathcom Mining SA thanks to the right of first refusal ofAVZ Minerals which would ultimately benefit the Republic and Cominière SA if the accounts of the shares are well done without emotions, Zijin has decided to proceed with its malicious and toxic offer, which is in reality a criminal OPA (Public Takeover Offer) and policy supported by politicians including the Chinese ambassador in Kinshasa, the Minister of the Portfolio Adèle Kayinda in collusion with some political dignitaries who have been members of the Union for the Congolese Nation since 2021 known to all those who are interested in the file,

reminding insiders of that which Glencore made against the Forrest Group for the control of Katanga Mining Limited and Kamoto Copper Company(KCC of Kolwezi) almost fifteen years ago with the support of politicians who considered themselves strong men of the regime if not immortal untouchable demiurges.

Klaus Eckoff's 2020 AJN Resources skirmish at Sokimo​

However, Zijin 's takeover is more like a robbery against the mining assets of First Quantum Minerals (FQM) by a third party with the help of politicians and technicians from the companies concerned and the mining cadastre.

Some official actors in the administration of mines have not changed heads and methods, although a similar takeover bid by the German and Canadian company AJN Resources of Klaus Eckoff failed in 2020, on the assets of Sokimo to raise 20 million Canadian dollars, thanks to the decisive vigilance of the NGOs and media members of the "TOUS POUR LA RDC" coalition , which had welcomed the salutary and patriotic decision of the Head of State Félix Antoine Tshisekedi taken thanks to the explanations of some ministers of the time (Ilunga Ilukamba Government) including Mr. Lite, Mwabilu, Kambinga and Kabanda while those of the mines, Kitobo and Portfolio, Kwete did not play fair and had an ambiguous attitude.

The United States of America and Canada opposed to Chinese control of the lithium supply chain since 2022​

Indeed, allowing Zijin to succeed in its takeover bid for Cominière SA 's 15% stake in Dathcom Mining for 33.4 million US dollars despite the denunciations of the IGF or giving it the northern part of Dathcom Mining 's operating license as says a so-called “confidential” document with content published by Congolese media including EcoNews , Sphynx.cdand others means undermining the efforts of the President of the Republic Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi against corruption, the selling off of mining assets and the cleaning up of the sector according to his vision; but it is above all to oppose the government of the Republic and President Tshisekedi to the American administration and the Canadian government which do not want China to control critical minerals, mainly lithium and rare earths, and strategic after cobalt and the copper.

La Cominière SA and all official supporters of Zijinmust thoroughly research the Executive Order signed in 2022 by US President Biden and the measures taken by the Canadian government of Trudeau against Chinese and Chinese-invested companies in this regard and avoid put Westerners on the back of the President of the Republic who is doing a remarkable job in the mining sector.

All official members of the parliamentary and government coalition must avoid repeating against Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi what the late Katumba band (some are still in post at strategic services of the Ministry of Mines) had done at First Quantum Minerals (FQM ) and at Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) by putting on the back of Joseph Kabila in 2009-2010 Canadians and Europeans on the eve of the general elections in the country. We must not repeat the evil, especially in the strategic lithium sector for the benefit of China (through Zijin , reputed to be a great violator of laws and human rights in Kolwezi and elsewhere) which already controls more than 90% of the copper and cobalt of the DRC bySicomines, TFM, Kamoa, Compagnie Minière de Musonoie, Ruashi Mining, AMC Kinsevere, Huachin Mabenda, etc.

Who are the key players in Zijin's lithium heist of Manono, Dathcom Mining and AVZ Minerals?​

The question seems banal or vulgar but it is rather important, fundamental. The answer to this helps to understand everything that is happening in easy French for dummies in the mining sector of the DRC and the geostrategic stakes, because the actors of what looks like a game of chess or the Strategootherwise who loses wins are recruited in several circles, in several places. After investigations, cross-checking of data and testimonies, analysis of various documents, the rest of our publications look into it.

As a reminder, history will remember that on May 20, 2022, the international media Citya.m was already talking about '' a Chinese plot to take control of the Congolese lithium mine '' .

This media affirmed in its publication with premonitory paces this:
"A plot by a coalition of powerful Chinese battery makers to take control of the world's largest lithium mine is threatening to depress the share price of Australian mining company AVZ Minerals, it said. a mysterious short seller.

AVZ Minerals could lose control of the Manono lithium mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and end up with a minority stake of 36%…, if a plot led by Chinese businessman Simon Cong succeeds, has said Boatman Capital Research in a new report.

The report comes amid a battle for control of the DRC mine between AVZ Minerals and Chinese miner Zijin Mining, which has seen AVZ voluntarily suspend trading of its own shares on the Australian Stock Exchange.

In its new report, Boatman Capital Research claims that AVZ is ''deliberately ousted from the Manono project''…''

Simon Congo is the Chinese called Cong Mao Huai, known as the owner of Fleuve-Congo Hotel in Kinshasa; owner or manager of SOPECO which manages the main tolls in the DRC; headliner of Dathomir (shareholder with Guy Loando Mboyo's family in Dathcom Mining ) denounced in the IGF report on Cominière SA ; headliner of mining companies HongKong Excellen Mining Investment Congo and HongKong Yisen (in which the name of Guy Loando was among the shareholders according to the documents consulted by the investigators), having benefited in an irregular and mysterious way from the mining permits of Dathcom Miningaccording to reports fromthe General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) from 2022 and the Superior Council of the Portfolio from 2021, and other mining and various operational companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. File to follow, file to read.

(A survey conducted by NGOs and Congolese Civil Society Platforms CDH, CERN/CENCO, ESPOIR ONGD, JUSTICIA, MAX IMPACT, LICOCO, POM, RCEN, RND, TPAMC, TOUS POUR LA RDC and the media Congo Nouveau, Leaders, MNM who follow the Cominière Dossier and Dathcom Mining)



Below: Julien Paluku with former CCP Ambassador to the DRC Zhu Jing who has now been replaced by Zhao Bin

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Below; Money changing hands between DRC Prime Minister Sama Lukonde and Minister of Portfolio Adele Kayinda

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19/02/2023

At the heart of the battle for control of Manono lithium by China in the Democratic Republic of Congo:​

February 19, 2023 Jeef Kazadi
WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-19-at-15.20.47.jpeg



  • What does the Chinese company Zijin actually want from the Congolese Cominière SA and Dathcom Mining?
  • Who are the key players in a hostile takeover that looks like a toxic robbery? Decryption
(By Simon Bofunga, Jeef Kazadi, Ben Khaya)

China first, Congolese people ignored​

As in the copper, cobalt and zinc sector of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where this Chinese company is at Kamoa-Kakula and Kipushi Company with Ivanhoe Mines, at Compagnie Minière de Musonoie with Gécamines as well as other Chinese GEC who control the industrial copper and cobalt of the country at Sicomines (Chinese Contract or Contract Mines against Infrastructures) and block the General Company of Cobalt to continue to also control copper and cobalt crafts, by the Chinese from Kolwezi called ''SOLEIL'' (he is reputed to be the true king of mining crafts and casions in upper Katanga and Lualaba, according to LICOCO which carried out a survey in the two provinces with the Presidential Anti-Corruption Agency– APLC for at least six months), with Congolese accomplices who are members of the institutions of the Republic, Zijin who never invests in mining exploration and research, like any good Chinese in Africa, but excels in violations of laws and of human rights in China and in host countries, wants to help China get its hands on Manono's lithium thanks to Congolese service and non-patriots interested in the illicit enrichment facilitated by the famous Chinese of the country.

From Perth to Manono: Max Pro 1.0 remake of the battle for control of KML at KCC​

After failing to buy several stock shares of AVZ on the Australian Stock Exchange in Perth and after failing to pressure other shareholder Chinese companies ( Huayou and CATHL ) to enter the shareholding of Dathcom Mining by irregularly buying shares of Cominière SA to control the largest lithium deposit in the world thanks to the vigilance of the Australian stock market regulator – AVZ has more than 21,000 shareholders from several nationalities and continents including Americans, Australians, Europeans, Chinese, etc. .-, and after having failed in its attempt to directly buy 15% of Cominière SA in Dathcom Mining SA thanks to the right of first refusal ofAVZ Minerals which would ultimately benefit the Republic and Cominière SA if the accounts of the shares are well done without emotions, Zijin has decided to proceed with its malicious and toxic offer, which is in reality a criminal OPA (Public Takeover Offer) and policy supported by politicians including the Chinese ambassador in Kinshasa, the Minister of the Portfolio Adèle Kayinda in collusion with some political dignitaries who have been members of the Union for the Congolese Nation since 2021 known to all those who are interested in the file,

reminding insiders of that which Glencore made against the Forrest Group for the control of Katanga Mining Limited and Kamoto Copper Company(KCC of Kolwezi) almost fifteen years ago with the support of politicians who considered themselves strong men of the regime if not immortal untouchable demiurges.

Klaus Eckoff's 2020 AJN Resources skirmish at Sokimo​

However, Zijin 's takeover is more like a robbery against the mining assets of First Quantum Minerals (FQM) by a third party with the help of politicians and technicians from the companies concerned and the mining cadastre.

Some official actors in the administration of mines have not changed heads and methods, although a similar takeover bid by the German and Canadian company AJN Resources of Klaus Eckoff failed in 2020, on the assets of Sokimo to raise 20 million Canadian dollars, thanks to the decisive vigilance of the NGOs and media members of the "TOUS POUR LA RDC" coalition , which had welcomed the salutary and patriotic decision of the Head of State Félix Antoine Tshisekedi taken thanks to the explanations of some ministers of the time (Ilunga Ilukamba Government) including Mr. Lite, Mwabilu, Kambinga and Kabanda while those of the mines, Kitobo and Portfolio, Kwete did not play fair and had an ambiguous attitude.

The United States of America and Canada opposed to Chinese control of the lithium supply chain since 2022​

Indeed, allowing Zijin to succeed in its takeover bid for Cominière SA 's 15% stake in Dathcom Mining for 33.4 million US dollars despite the denunciations of the IGF or giving it the northern part of Dathcom Mining 's operating license as says a so-called “confidential” document with content published by Congolese media including EcoNews , Sphynx.cdand others means undermining the efforts of the President of the Republic Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi against corruption, the selling off of mining assets and the cleaning up of the sector according to his vision; but it is above all to oppose the government of the Republic and President Tshisekedi to the American administration and the Canadian government which do not want China to control critical minerals, mainly lithium and rare earths, and strategic after cobalt and the copper.

La Cominière SA and all official supporters of Zijinmust thoroughly research the Executive Order signed in 2022 by US President Biden and the measures taken by the Canadian government of Trudeau against Chinese and Chinese-invested companies in this regard and avoid put Westerners on the back of the President of the Republic who is doing a remarkable job in the mining sector.

All official members of the parliamentary and government coalition must avoid repeating against Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi what the late Katumba band (some are still in post at strategic services of the Ministry of Mines) had done at First Quantum Minerals (FQM ) and at Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) by putting on the back of Joseph Kabila in 2009-2010 Canadians and Europeans on the eve of the general elections in the country. We must not repeat the evil, especially in the strategic lithium sector for the benefit of China (through Zijin , reputed to be a great violator of laws and human rights in Kolwezi and elsewhere) which already controls more than 90% of the copper and cobalt of the DRC bySicomines, TFM, Kamoa, Compagnie Minière de Musonoie, Ruashi Mining, AMC Kinsevere, Huachin Mabenda, etc.

Who are the key players in Zijin's lithium heist of Manono, Dathcom Mining and AVZ Minerals?​

The question seems banal or vulgar but it is rather important, fundamental. The answer to this helps to understand everything that is happening in easy French for dummies in the mining sector of the DRC and the geostrategic stakes, because the actors of what looks like a game of chess or the Strategootherwise who loses wins are recruited in several circles, in several places. After investigations, cross-checking of data and testimonies, analysis of various documents, the rest of our publications look into it.

As a reminder, history will remember that on May 20, 2022, the international media Citya.m was already talking about '' a Chinese plot to take control of the Congolese lithium mine '' .

This media affirmed in its publication with premonitory paces this:
"A plot by a coalition of powerful Chinese battery makers to take control of the world's largest lithium mine is threatening to depress the share price of Australian mining company AVZ Minerals, it said. a mysterious short seller.

AVZ Minerals could lose control of the Manono lithium mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and end up with a minority stake of 36%…, if a plot led by Chinese businessman Simon Cong succeeds, has said Boatman Capital Research in a new report.

The report comes amid a battle for control of the DRC mine between AVZ Minerals and Chinese miner Zijin Mining, which has seen AVZ voluntarily suspend trading of its own shares on the Australian Stock Exchange.

In its new report, Boatman Capital Research claims that AVZ is ''deliberately ousted from the Manono project''…''

Simon Congo is the Chinese called Cong Mao Huai, known as the owner of Fleuve-Congo Hotel in Kinshasa; owner or manager of SOPECO which manages the main tolls in the DRC; headliner of Dathomir (shareholder with Guy Loando Mboyo's family in Dathcom Mining ) denounced in the IGF report on Cominière SA ; headliner of mining companies HongKong Excellen Mining Investment Congo and HongKong Yisen (in which the name of Guy Loando was among the shareholders according to the documents consulted by the investigators), having benefited in an irregular and mysterious way from the mining permits of Dathcom Miningaccording to reports fromthe General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) from 2022 and the Superior Council of the Portfolio from 2021, and other mining and various operational companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. File to follow, file to read.

(A survey conducted by NGOs and Congolese Civil Society Platforms CDH, CERN/CENCO, ESPOIR ONGD, JUSTICIA, MAX IMPACT, LICOCO, POM, RCEN, RND, TPAMC, TOUS POUR LA RDC and the media Congo Nouveau, Leaders, MNM who follow the Cominière Dossier and Dathcom Mining)



Below: Julien Paluku with former CCP Ambassador to the DRC Zhu Jing who has now been replaced by Zhao Bin

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Below; Money changing hands between DRC Prime Minister Sama Lukonde and Minister of Portfolio Adele Kayinda

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Great post Dave

Clearly describes and enunciates the perverted, corrupted and criminal position that Zijin and it's accomplice Cominiere occupies in relation to Manono
 
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Slave workers at #ZIJIN ? Grumbles at #CARRILU , the ZIJIN group cement factory in Kolwezi, about working conditions worthy of a Stalinist gulag. Share massively to denounce the conditions of slavery in which the Congolese work.



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