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Olivier Schorochoff & Weid Vereycken

MANAGING DIRECTOR & REGIONAL MANAGER HAUT-KATANGA AND LUALABA, GARDAWORLD

MACIG 2022

GardaWorld is the largest privately-owned security services company in the world, with an annual turnover of around US$4 billion, a total of 120,000 employees.

Mining

DRC

MACIG

Navin Dalmia

MANAGING DIRECTOR, RUBAMIN

Rubamin is an Indian company operating in the DRC metals and mining space.

Mining

DRC

MACIG

Weiquan Xia

GENERAL MANAGER, MMG

"On an Africa operations level, we are focused on actively advancing our copper cathode production in the Copperbelt. This strategy is centered on advancing our Kinsevere Expansion Project, which is expected to be approved this year, and then looking beyond to other assets in the region either via acquisition or through exploration."

Mining

DRC

MACIG

Abbas Virji

DIRECTOR, SHALINA RESOURCES & CEO, SHALINA HEALTHCARE

"Upon conclusion of these two projects, Chemaf, our subsidiary in the country, will be one the largest cobalt producers in the world with a production profile of approximately 20,000 t/y cobalt contained in cobalt hydroxide and 75,000 t/y of copper cathode."

Mining

DRC

MACIG

Socrates Economou & James Nicholson

HEAD OF NICKEL AND COBALT TRADING & HEAD OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY, TRAFIGURA

"Trafigura began trading metals and minerals sourced from the DRC in 2005 and we have been the largest trader by volume for the past six years."

Mining

DRC

MACIG

Marna Cloete

PRESIDENT, IVANHOE MINES

"It's hard to overstate how important the discovery is for Ivanhoe Mines, our operating partners, and the people of DRC."

Mining

DRC

MACIG

Ralph Heath

REGIONAL MANAGER AFRICA, WSP GOLDER MINING

"In West Africa new gold projects create demand for feasibility studies and environmental work, whereas in the Copperbelt the focus has fallen on expanding existing mines."

Mining

DRC

MACIG

Jean - Dominique Takis Kumbo

CEO, ENTERPRISE GENERALE DU COBALT (EGC)

"EGC was created in an effort to clean and control the entire supply chain of artisanal cobalt mining."

Mining

DRC

MACIG

Mustafa Rawji

MANAGING DIRECTOR, RAWBANK

"DRC banks are in a relatively good financial position, with total deposits in the banking system at around US$14 billion and total lending at US$4-5 billion."