3 ·Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo; Population 5 417 414 July 2021 est note estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy higher infant mortality higher death rates lower population growth rates and changes in the distribution of
·Democratic Republic of the Congo Import Requirements and Documentation International mining companies attracted by high grade and low cost mines are increasingly attracted to the DRC s copper belt in the southern part of the country DRC s gold mining sector is also witnessing renewed interest from mining companies In
·Natural resources cobalt copper niobium tantalum petroleum industrial and gem diamonds gold silver zinc manganese tin uranium coal hydropower timber note 1 coltan the industrial name for a columbite tantalite mineral from which niobium and tantalum are extracted is being linked to warfare in the Democratic Republic of the
DRC EU Strategic Partnership on sustainable raw materials value chains Ministerial Decree #19/15 about the safeguarding of the activities related to artisanally exploited strategic minerals Mining Code of the Democratic Republic of Congo Ministerial Decree #18/042 declaring cobalt germanium and colombo tantalite strategic mineral substances
·The Democratic Republic of the Congo holds the world s largest supplies of this key metal And it s the largest producer The use of child labor in some instances in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to produce cobalt has become a large concern for automakers regulators and policy makers across the globe
·The Democratic Republic of the Congo French Rpublique dmocratique du Congo or RDC ; often shortened to DRC or Congo is the largest and most populous country in Central straddles the Equator and is surrounded by Angola to the southwest; Angola s Cabinda exclave and the Republic of the Congo to the northwest;