Congo to Share Minerals Projects List With US to Advance Pact
Congo is the world’s second-biggest producer of copper.
Photographer: Emmet Livingstone/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Democratic Republic of Congo will shortly share a list of minerals projects with the US for possible development by American investors, six weeks after the two nations signed a strategic partnership.
President Donald Trump’s administration wants to challenge China’s dominance in the mining and processing of numerous minerals crucial to modern economies. On Dec. 4, the US and Congo announced a deal that grants American firms privileged access to some of the central African nation’s abundant reserves of metals including copper, cobalt, lithium and tantalum. No specific deposits or assets were disclosed at the time.