Chinese cobalt refiner, 赣州腾远钴业新材料股份有限公司, listed in Shenzhen, whose own 2025 half-year report says it set up a subsidiary in the DRC, Tengyuan Cobalt Copper Resources, as its ore procurement and primary processing base there, and that it processes all kinds of Congolese cobalt-bearing raw materials. The refiner is on the cobalt lists of Apple (2024), Microsoft (2021), Samsung Electronics (conformant, 2024), Samsung SDI (2024) and Fairphone (audit passed, data year 2023), and the LME lists a TENGYUAN cobalt brand dated 20 June 2023, a match by brand name alone. Its DRC tie rests on its own filing.
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Named as Ganzhou Tengyuan Cobalt New Material Co., Ltd. on Apple's cobalt smelter and refiner list as of 31 December 2024. The list is Apple's own disclosure; direct purchasing, volumes and mine origin unspecified.
This list contains the smelters and refiners identified in Apple's supply chain as of December 31, 2024 for certain minerals.
Listed as Ganzhou Tengyuan, audit passed, in Annex 2 of Fairphone's 2024 supply-chain report (data year 2023). The list is Fairphone's own disclosure; direct purchasing, volumes and mine origin unspecified.
CID003264 Chemaf Etoile CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE Audit Passed
Named as Ganzhou Tengyuan Cobalt New Material Co., Ltd. on Microsoft Devices' cobalt smelter and refiner list as of 31 December 2021; Microsoft states it has no direct transactions or contractual relationship with the listed facilities. The list is Microsoft's own disclosure; direct purchasing, volumes and mine origin unspecified.
Microsoft conducts no direct transactions and has no contractual relationship with these smelter or refiners nor their sources of ore.
Listed as Ganzhou Tengyuan, conformant, in the cobalt smelter list of Samsung Electronics' 2024 Responsible Minerals Report (data year 2023). The list is Samsung Electronics' own disclosure; direct purchasing, volumes and mine origin unspecified.
CID003264 Chemaf Etoile Congo, Democratic Republic of the Conformant
Listed as Ganzhou Tengyuan Cobalt New Material Co., Ltd. among the cobalt smelters and refiners in Samsung SDI's 2025 sustainability report (data year 2024). The list is Samsung SDI's own disclosure; direct purchasing, volumes and mine origin unspecified.
for cobalt, 23 out of 25 smelters have been verified as RMI-conformant.
Ganzhou Tengyuan Cobalt's 2025 half-year report defines Tengyuan Cobalt Copper Resources, in the DRC, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Tengyuan, itself the company's, and calls it the company's ore procurement and primary processing base in the DRC. Single source, from the owner.
公司在刚果（金）设立刚果腾远，作为公司在刚果（金）的矿石原料采购基地和产品初加工基地。