Construction of the 230MW Rusizi Hydropower dam for Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project will cost US$700 million. The GPS co-ordinates are -2.5091182, 28.8752453
Construction of the Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project in Central Africa. The project is estimated to cost over US$ 150 million. The Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project is an off-grid solar electrification project that will be implemented in West and Central Africa. The beneficiary countries
The Passendro gold project is envisioned as a conventional openpit gravity carbon-in-leach operation, with a mine production rate of three million tons a year. The mine will produce an average of 203 000 oz/y, in just under six years, at an average operating cost of $ 379 / oz, including royalties.
Areva is drilling and expects to commence feasibility studies at its 90%-owned Bakouma uranium project in the the Bakouma Basin, 100km North of Bangassou in the Central African Republic, shortly. This entire project is to cover an area of 2 900km². To date it comprises ten deposits in close proximity
Construction of a tailings re-treatment plant at Kolwezi copper-cobalt tailings project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The plant will be designed and constructed such that its capacity can be doubled at a capital cost of US$40 million.
Project value: US$593 million.
The government of DRC and BHP Billiton have signed an agreement to jointly investigate the development of a world-class aluminium smelter in the Bas Congo region of the DRC. The smelter will use electricity from the proposed Inga 3 hydropower station on the Congo River. The proposed aluminium smelter
Construction of a concentrator to upgrade ore currently being mined on the
Kawama copper cobalt ore reserve by the artisanal miners near Lubumbashi in the
DRC.
Chromecto has entered into a joint venture with Centre Professionnel de Development (Ceprodev), of the DRC, subject to SARB approval. The JV will initially include the development of the following project: The marketing of Gold Production on behalf of artisanal miners currently mining and producing
Expansion of the existing plant infrastructure, construction of a solvent extraction, electrowinning circuit and acid plant at the Ruashi Complex as part of the Ruashi 2 project for Metorex. This expansion would raise the mine's capacity from the operating capacity of 7 500 tons of copper a year to 45