Mining and trading group operating the KCC and Mutanda copper-cobalt assets.
Sources support the description and the individual connections below. Publication and checking dates refer to the evidence, not a guarantee of current operations.
Reported means the cited source describes the relationship at its evidence date. Historical relationships refer to an earlier period. Announced agreements may not have been implemented. None of these labels confirms that trade continues today.
Electra extended its cobalt-feedstock purchase agreement with Glencore AG through 2031. Commissioning and ramp-up supply was secured through 2027; the Canadian refinery remained under development.
an extension of its cobalt hydroxide feed purchase agreement with Glencore AG
A letter of intent envisaged cobalt feedstock for EVelution's planned US facility. Final supply terms remained under negotiation; DRC facilities were mentioned without naming a particular mine.
Glencore and EVelution are finalizing the terms of a long-term supply agreement
GEM's first-half 2024 contract table reports RMB1.04 billion executed under a December 2020 cobalt-hydroxide agreement with Glencore International AG. The table groups GEM and named subsidiaries; it does not identify mine origin.
Crude cobalt hydroxide raw materials
SK Innovation's battery business contracted for 30,000 tonnes of cobalt during 2020–2025. SK On, separated in 2021, retrospectively described this contract; the 2019 signatory was SK Innovation.
to secure cobalt for six years from 2020 to 2025.
SK Innovation will receive a total of 30,000 tons of cobalt
The October 2019 announcement covered cobalt hydroxide supply during 2020–2024. The stated contract period has ended; no renewal or delivered volume is established here.
Under the terms of the agreement, Glencore will provide a minimum of 61,200 tonnes of Cobalt for GEM between 2020 and 2024.
Glencore identifies KCC as its DRC industrial asset and a partnership with Gécamines.
Glencore operates two industrial assets producing copper and cobalt in the DRC
Tenke Fungurume Mining (owned by CMOC); Metalkol (Eurasian Resources Group)
USGS identifies Mutanda Mining as a Glencore subsidiary in its 2024 review.
Kamoto Copper Co., a joint venture between Katanga Mining Ltd. (a subsidiary of Glencore plc.) and Gécamines
The five-year agreement covered 2020–2024 and specified DRC industrial mining origin without naming individual mines. Its stated period has ended.
Glencore has today signed a five year agreement with Samsung SDI for the supply of cobalt hydroxide.
A long-term revolving cobalt hydroxide supply agreement was announced in May 2019, naming KCC and Mutanda as origins.
The cobalt will be sourced from Glencore’s state-of-the art industrial mining operations, KCC and Mutanda, located in the DRC.