The provincial division of the DRC's Direction des Mines in Lualaba. ITIE-RDC describes the head of a provincial mines division as a key actor in monitoring and controlling artisanal mining: the division receives cooperatives' approval applications, gives conformity opinions on artisanal miners' and traders' card applications and gives an opinion on instituting artisanal zones. ITIE-RDC says the Direction des Mines acts in its two study provinces, Haut-Katanga and Lualaba, through its two provincial divisions without naming them, so this Lualaba entry is an inference from the report's scope.
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