The Congolese authorities had to take extraordinary measures and ban gold mining after a mountain was discovered in the country, the rocks of which, according to preliminary estimates, are 90% gold.
Thousands of people have already flooded the foothills of Mount Luhihi, located in South Kivu province. With shovels, picks, and sometimes just with their hands, they are trying to extract rich gold ore.
Journalists who have visited Lukhihi say that they saw with their own eyes that even with the most primitive washing, the rock gives 60-90% of gold.
Thousands of people have already flooded the foothills of Mount Luhihi, located in South Kivu province. With shovels, picks, and sometimes just with their hands, they are trying to extract rich gold ore.
Thousands of people have already flooded the foothills of Mount Luhihi, located in South Kivu province. With shovels, picks, and sometimes just with their hands, they are trying to extract rich gold ore.
A government decree instructs everyone to leave Lukhihi and its surroundings. An exception has not been made even for the servicemen guarding the gold miners.
The authorities intend to conduct proper registration of all who intend to mine gold in the area, and control the delivery of the precious metal to the state treasury.
The bowels of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are rich in natural resources. Gold, diamonds, oil, tin, tungsten, tantalum are mined in this African country. The DRC contains almost half of the world's uranium ore deposits.
Journalists who have visited Lukhihi say that they saw with their own eyes that even with the most primitive washing, the rock gives 60-90% of gold.
Journalists who have visited Lukhihi say that they saw with their own eyes that even with the most primitive washing, the rock gives 60-90% of gold.
But still, the DRC is one of the poorest countries in the world: up to 96% of Congolese do not know what medicine, running water or electricity is. This is due to the legacy of the regime of President Mobutu Seko, who ruled the country until 1997 and actually institutionalized corruption, as well as the actions of the government, which, among other things, turns a blind eye to the fact that mining is carried out illegally or through corruption schemes, and the proceeds do not replenish the state budget. and the piggy banks of private corporations and illegal armed groups.
Surely, in the very near future, the particles of the tragedy of the Congolese people in the form of gold, mined by them from Mount Lahihi, will be abandoned in the most unexpected corners of the world – from rings on the fingers of the most beautiful women in the world to game console microcircuits in the children's rooms of respectable European families.
