Arrêtés, communiqués, mining code texts, operator data and periodic production statistics for the copper-cobalt sector.
This page indexes the data sources behind the DRC artisanal cobalt record: what each one holds, how fresh it runs, and how it can actually be reached. Where a register has no public face, that absence is reported as a finding.
A reference is only as good as the sources it stands on. So the sources are a first-class layer here, not footnotes: every one linked, rated, and checked on a stated date.
Ratings grade what we publish about each source. Strong: reached directly and corroborated. Moderate: verified through indexed copies or secondary corroboration. Single: one thread of evidence, flagged.
Access notes are part of the honesty signature. A source that blocks automated readers, sits behind a paywall, or restricts republication is described as exactly that.
The official record: ministries, regulators and state bodies whose acts define the sector.
Arrêtés, communiqués, mining code texts, operator data and periodic production statistics for the copper-cobalt sector.
The cobalt export-quota regime: suspension, quota decisions (004 and 005 of 2025), forfeiture notices, AVQ certificates.
Mining titles and the granted mining domain, on the FlexiCadastre/Landfolio platform, with public map viewers. Whether ZEA polygons are a public layer is unconfirmed.
Artisanal-mining oversight: ZEA creation arrêtés, cooperative and site counts, quarterly ASM production references.
The state ASM-cobalt monopsony: responsible-sourcing standard, purchase and commercialisation pages, site news (Kasulo; first traceable production Nov 2025).
Promulgated laws and décrets, the test this hub applies before a draft décret is called "in force" (rule P7).
Who counts the tonnes: national bulletins, international estimates and trade data, with their disagreements.
National production and export bulletins by commodity, 2003 through Q1 2026, including the full-year 2025 bulletin. The DRC-side statistical anchor.
Annual DRC and world mine production, reserves and average LME-cash prices; editions 1996 to 2026 reconstruct a full series. Not ASM-disaggregated.
Revenue reconciliation with production and export context by company and mineral; the 2023 report was published December 2025.
DRC cobalt trade lines (HS 8105, 2605 and related). Mirror asymmetries between DRC-reported and partner-reported flows are significant; use partner mirrors and say which side a figure comes from.
The price series that move the sector, and the licensing lines around republishing them.
The exchange cash and 3-month cobalt contract (99.8% metal), the series behind this hub's price card.
Standard-grade cobalt (Rotterdam) and the cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, the price that actually moves DRC output. Methodology public; prices paywalled.
Annual Cobalt Market Report (2025 edition, May 2026) and free charts: supply, demand, prices, and the ASM-share estimate this hub quotes.
China-side cobalt metal, sulfate and MHP payable series, the demand-side counterpart to the Rotterdam assessments.
Who has actually mapped the belt, what is open, and what is often misattributed.
Remote-sensing geodata distinguishing artisanal, small-scale and large-scale mining extent across the DRC-Zambia Copperbelt, 2016-2023 imagery, built on cadastre data. The most directly cobalt-relevant open geodata found.
The field census of the belt: 102 artisanal copper-cobalt mines registered in Haut-Katanga and Lualaba, 58 with detailed socio-economic data. Still the reference site survey.
The open ASM webmap and geodata (2,800+ sites, ODC-BY licence) cover eastern DRC 3T and gold, NOT the copper-cobalt belt. IPIS's cobalt footprint is the Kufatilia incident monitor in Lualaba (since 2023) and due-diligence analyses.
Industrial projects, artisanal sites (active/inactive) and processors across Haut-Katanga and Lualaba, built from CAMI, BGR, CTCPM and its own 2023 ground survey.
The scarce ground-level evidence: what diggers are paid, and the surveys behind the people figures.
Field survey at Kamilombe and Mutoshi with a photographed buying-station price board (Mutoshi, June 2023) and daily-income readings: the rare public evidence of what diggers are actually paid.
The 2021 market and livelihoods analysis behind several of this hub's people-side readings (miner counts, media-reported fatalities floor).
Global ASM data platform holding the DRC country profile, the BGR belt survey and the Mutoshi pilot case study in one place.
The reporting frameworks that put sector data on the public record.
Dedicated artisanal copper-cobalt-zinc studies: the March 2023 value-chain report (open PDF) and a November 2025 ASM copper-cobalt update.
DRC cobalt ore listed for child labour since 2009; the 2024 edition added a forced-labour designation. Updated biennially.
A register, a dataset, a price series, a field study: if it belongs on this table, tell the Hub through the contribute page and it enters the next verification pass.