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,…
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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…
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The recent disaster in Rubaya, DRC (in which more than 200 artisanal miners, 70 of them children, were reported killed during flooding and tunnel collapses) has reminded the world of…
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced that its current ban on cobalt exports will be lifted effective 16 October 2025. In its place, a new quota-based export policy…
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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…