conflict minerals

By Ian Weekes, Crowe, Clarke, Whitehill EU announces agreement to curb the trade in Conflict Minerals The EU has announced that agreement has been reached in negotiations between the Commission,…

By Maria Cox, MMTA It would be very easy to think that because the EU’s proposed conflict minerals regulation has been announced as voluntary, it won’t have much of an…

There was an extremely interesting report published in August from the IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development) based in Canada. Green Conflict Minerals: The fuels of conflict in the transition…

CPM Group is an independent commodities research, consulting, and investment banking advisory company headquartered in New York. In this analysis, CPM’s tantalum market experts Andrew Matheson and Patrick Stratton dig…

Dear Members After a really very pleasant summer here in New York, fall seems finally to have come. At least the trees on my street are shedding leaves. Or maybe…

Dear Members From feet of snow this time in January, I believe that today, Friday, we are going to have temperatures in the low 70s Fahrenheit. We may also have…

On May 1st of this year, according to press reports, soldiers of the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) descended on the east of the country to…

DRC court puts administrator in charge of Tenke Fungurume mine At the end of February, the Tribunal of Commerce in the south-eastern city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, announced…

  The 2023 edition of the OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains will take place on 25-28 April 2023 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris.   The Forum will…

Conflict Minerals Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals and Chemicals Implements OECD  Responsible Mineral The OECD and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Minerals, Metals and Chemicals Exporters (CCCMC)…

As discussions on the effectiveness of Dodd-Frank continue, the EU’s Conflict Minerals Regulation rumble on, and with the recent introduction of the Modern Slavery Act in the UK (see the…

Conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and an ongoing dispute between two due diligence organisations has made global tantalum smelters more wary of sourcing material from DRC and…

In its vote on 20th May, the European Parliament overturned both the European Commission’s proposal as well as the recent vote of the International Trade Committee. The Commission originally proposed…

Recent reporting on conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), based in part on the UN Security Council’s Group of Experts report of December 2023 and in part…