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Natural Resources Congo is potentially rich because of its mineral resources. These are the most important raw materials:
- Diamond, in the centre and east of the country;
- Gold, in the eastern and north-eastern provinces;
- Coltan, in the northeast and east of Congo. Coltan is an important raw material used in mobile telephones and laptops;
- Hardwood: Congo has the largest hardwood reserves in Africa;
- Oil and gas, along the Atlantic coast, at Lake Albert on the border with Uganda, and at Lake Kivu on the border with Rwanda.
 | | Cobalt mine, Kolwezi (photo: J.P. Muteba) |
There are large reserves of copper and cobalt in the southern province of Katanga. Cobalt is important to the military and civil industry. The Congolese soil contains one-third of the world’s reserves of this raw materials. Other minerals found in Katanga include: zinc, silver, uranium, magnesium, lead and germanium (this last mineral is important to the fibreglass industry).
To ensure that natural resources in DR Congo make a contribution to peace and development, more up-to-date information is required. That is why Fatal Transactions organised an expert meeting in Brussels on 23 and 24 November 2005.
External link:
Final Recommendations DRC Conference by Saskia Van Hoyweghen
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