Mining site

Mwilu

Artisanal site in Mutshatsha territory, Lualaba, listed under mining title PE2604 in ITIE-RDC’s 2025 copper-cobalt-sector survey (p.173). That register shows who occupies a title, not who owns or operates it, and establishes neither current production, nor workforce, nor the site-specific copper/cobalt split, which is unresolved. The cited sources name no cooperative for this site.

Evidence of commodities

sector-register only; site commodity split unresolved

Location and title

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  • Approximate location

    Why it is approximate: Recorded for Mwilu at a visit of 15 May 2019 for BGR’s project; it is not established as an individual working, a site centroid, a title boundary, or a current operating location.

    Reported coordinate
    10.67724° S · 25.49461° E
    Precision
    Coordinate of IPIS’s open data, whose “location_origin” field reads “GPS”; the datum is not stated.
    Evidence as of
    15 May 2019
    Coordinate reference system
    Unstated in the source

    Open data, DR Congo (cod_mines_curated_all_opendata_p_ipis.csv) ↗IPIS

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Reported mining title
PE2604
Mining-title holders
Gécamines

Connections

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.

Mining-title holders

Evaluated as a candidate site by

  • Cobalt for DevelopmentInitiative

    • Evaluated as a candidate site · Historical · Evidence as of 2019

      Site assessment of Mwilu in 2019, by C4D’s chronology, alongside Kisote, Kamilombe, Shabara and Tilwezembe.

      1 publisher, one of the companies involved

      1 source
      1. Cobalt for Development – Lessons Learned Paper ↗

        Cobalt for Development (GIZ) · Published December 2025 · Checked 21 September 2026

        The project is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of and with funding from the participating companies.

        p.14 (chronology): "2019 Site assessment of Kisote, Kamilombe, Mwilu, Shabara and Tilwezembe".

Sources

Sources support the description and the individual connections below. Publication and checking dates belong to the evidence: when it was published, and when this Hub last read it.

7 sources

Cadastre Minier (CAMI), République Démocratique du Congo

  1. République Démocratique du Congo, Cadastre Minier — Registre des droits miniers et de carrières valides, situation au 31 juillet 2025 ↗

    Published August 2025 · Checked 20 September 2026

    1551 LA GENERALE DES CARRIERES ET DES MINES SA / 2604 / PE / 56 / 20/05/2024 / 19/05/2039 / Actif / Lualaba; Kolwezi, Mutshatsha

    Row 1551, columns as printed: N° / TITULAIRES / N°DROIT / NATURE / CARRES / OCTROI / EXPIRATION / STATUT / LOCALISATION. The row’s final localisation field, omitted from the excerpt above, reads S11/25.

Cobalt for Development (GIZ)

  1. Cobalt for Development – Lessons Learned Paper ↗

    Published December 2025 · Checked 21 September 2026

    The project is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of and with funding from the participating companies.

    PDF p.7, “Project Strategy”. 51 pages; the page each subject rests on is given in that subject’s own evidence entry.

CTCPM

  1. Mining-Data warehouse – Contrats miniers ↗

    Checked 24 September 2026

    Les contrats de base Les avenants et annexes Les statistiques des contrats

    Contracts menu; "Partenariats RDC-CHINE / -UE / -USA / -CANADA / -RSA"; "Liste des ZEA"; "Coopératives minières"; "La dotation de 0,3% du CA".

  2. CONTRAT D'AMODIATION ENTRE LA GENERALE DES CARRIERES ET DES MINES S.A. ET CHEMAF SARL RELATIF AUX DROITS MINIERS ATTACHES AU PE 2604 DE GECAMINES S.A ↗

    Checked 15 October 2026

    LA GENERALE DES CARRIERES ET DES MINES S.A. ; CHEMAF SARL

    Contract “N° 1543/12624/SG/GC/2015”, dated May 2015, PDF p.1, cover; parties clause on p.2: the parties as printed, read from the PDF’s text layer (OCR). Register row 152 (CD/CM/ CA GCM - CHEMAF), signed 17/06/2015.

IPIS

  1. Open data, DR Congo (cod_mines_curated_all_opendata_p_ipis.csv) ↗

    Published May 2026 · Checked 5 October 2026

    While our previous geoserver is offline, you may access our open datasets on the artisanal mining sector through the following direct downloads:

    Open-data table of mine sites, file “cod_mines_curated_all_opendata_p_ipis.csv”, line 4522 (“vid” “4521”): “Mwilu”, province “Lualaba”, territory “Mutshatsha”, visit of “2019-05-15”, location origin “GPS”, “Cobalt” among its minerals, project “BGR”, source “Third-party”.

ITIE-RDC / EITI

  1. Contribution à la mobilisation des ressources domestiques au travers de l’amélioration de la gouvernance de la filière artisanale cuivre-cobalt ↗

    Published November 2025 · Checked 23 September 2026

    CDM et THOMAS sont les principaux acheteurs des produits de Kasulo.

    Printed p.173 (PDF page 173), Table 22 "PE occupés par des sites miniers artisanaux dans le Lualaba", row "MWILU / MUTSHATSHA", under the PE2604 GCM title group.

  2. Rapport ITIE sur le secteur de l’exploitation minière artisanale et à petite échelle dans la chaine de valeur du cuivre-cobalt-zinc ↗

    Published March 2023 · Checked 23 September 2026

    la ZEA 786, à Kasulo, dans le secteur de Kolwezi Est dans le Lualaba

    p.271, Annex 13 “Liste des sites miniers artisanaux (SAEMAPE)”, column “LUALABA / Toléré”: “MWILU”.