Colton Mine of Congo excavated for the technology of the world; Regardless of who is in charge

Rubaya: Located in the green hills of Messi region in the Congo, the artisan Rubaya, with the voice of the mining site generator, as hundreds of men, work by hand to remove the colon, which is a major mineral significant for the production of modern electronics and rescue techniques, and was demanded fiercely after the world.Rubaya is located in the center of Eastern Congo, a mineral-rich part of the Central African nation, separated from violence from government forces and various armed groups for decades, including Rwanda-Bacadam 23, whose recent revival enhances conflict, already spoils acute humanitarian crisis. As US Spearheads Peace talks between Congo and Rwanda, the President of the Congo Felix Teskedi has sought a deal with the Trump administration, which provides mineral access to US support in raising rebellion and promoting security. While the details of the deal are not clear, analysts said that Rubaya may be one of the mining sites that come under its purview. Eastern Congo has been out of crisis for decades. The conflict has created one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises, with over 7 million people displaced, including 100,000 who fled from their homes this year. Rubaya mines have been at the center of the fight, changing hands between the congratulations government and the rebel groups. Now for more than a year, it has been controlled by the M23 rebels, who advanced earlier this year and seized the strategic city Goma and Fuvu in a major part of the conflict. Despite the country’s extraordinary mineral wealth, more than 70 percent of the congregations are less than USD 2.15 in a day. Metal for ‘modern life and military preparations’ For men working in Rubaya’s mines, who rely on mining for their livelihood, have rarely changed in decades of violence. One of them is Jean Baptist Bigirimana, who has worked in mines for seven years. “I earn a $ 40 in a month, but this is not enough,” he said. “Children need clothes, education and food. When I divide money to see how I will take care of my children, I realize that it is not enough,” he said, they do not know where the mines go after leaving the mining mines. The mines are produced by colloquette – a small for the columbite -tentalite – an ore from which the metal tantalum and nyobium are extracted. Both are considered important raw materials by the United States, European Union, China and Japan. Tantalum is also used in mobile phones, computers and automotive electronics -in aircraft engine, missile components and GPS systems. Niobium is used in pipelines, rockets and jet engines. According to the US Geological Survey, Australia, Canada and Brazil, according to other major suppliers, had about 40 percent of the world’s colon in 2023. The National Emergency Executive Order issued by Trump highlighted the importance of important minerals, including Tantalum and Nyobium, and called for American access to ensure both “modern life and military preparations”.

A ‘Merkey’ global supply chain

According to a United Nations report, since the seizure of Rubaya in April last year, M23 has taxed the monthly trade and transport of 120 tonnes of colon, generating at least $ 800,000 per month. United Nations experts said that colon is exported to Rwanda. But before the M23 seized the control of the mine, analysts stated that the mineral was sold to Rwanda, the only difference is that it was done through the congregation middlemen. Experts say that it is not easy to find out how to colon in Western countries. “The global colon supply chain is very spectacular,” said Guelume De Borier, a natural resource researcher at the Antwerp-based International Peace Information Service. “From the Eastern DRC, the cotton is purchased by traders, mostly Lebanese or Chinese, which will sell it to exporters located in Rwanda. Exporters will then send it to UAE or China, where it will be refined to Tantalum and Neobium, and western countries will be sold as metals from UAE or China., M23 has controlled Rubaya for the first time period, and the United Nations claimed that even before the acquisition of Goma, the group was making the smuggling of these minerals convenient to Rwanda. Since the M23 controlled the mine, according to Rwanda official data, Rwanda’s official colon exports have doubled. Many times, the mines were also under the control of Wazlando, which was a militia associated with the Kangoli army. Alexis Twagira said that she feels that some things have improved under M3. “I have been working in this mine for 13 years, and I have worked under Wazlando. When they were here, they will bother us, sometimes take our minerals and demand money,” he said. The United Nations has accused both the Kangoli Army and M33 rebels on human rights violations. ,

We cannot continue in this way ‘

Congo is the world’s largest producer of cobalt, a mineral that is used to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and other products, but the US access is complicated by the fact that Chinese companies control 80 percent of their congregations. Congo also produces gold. In recent weeks, two American companies opened doors for production in the region. An American firm Nathan Trotter signed a letter of intentions with Rwanda-based trinity metals, the owner of Rwanda’s largest tin mine. And Cobold Metals, which uses artificial intelligence for further energy infection and supported by billionaire Bill Gates, made a deal to buy the interest of Australia’s AVZ minerals in the Manono Lithium deposits of Congo. Analysts have warned that the implementation of a mineral in Eastern Congo, if a person was from materiality, would face many obstacles – especially to release the Congo on a large scale in the last two decades with American investors. A research institute, Chautham House, recently said in a report, “Permanent progress will require to solve deep doubts between Rwanda and DRC to turn on a headline announcement.” “A deal will also have to pay attention to the complex local political problems of land access and identity, comprehensive security challenges in an area that hosts the issues of numerous non-state armed groups and asset shortage.” If the deal is to include Rubaya, where all mining is currently done manually, American companies will have to struggle with both security concerns and severe lack of infrastructure. “With the International Peace Information Service with D Berr,” You are working with hundreds of thousands of miners, and not only M23, but other so-called auto-defense armed groups and individuals who rely on mining for survival. ” “You have to build all infrastructure, you have to start with scratches. You will also have to construct roads.” The Bahti Moise, a businessman who rescues the colon from the mines of Rubaya, hopes that, which controls the mines, which will eventually be more valuable as the resources themselves to the laboring workers to remove the minerals. “The whole country, the whole world knows that the phones here are made of mined colon, but look at the life we ​​live,” he said. “We cannot continue this way.”