Mining site

Ruwe Messe cuivre

IPIS’s open data on artisanal mine sites carries Ruwe Messe cuivre in Mutshatsha territory, Lualaba, from a visit of 7 October 2020 recorded for BGR’s project, with copper among its minerals.

Evidence of commodities

site-specific copper

Location and title

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  • Approximate location

    Why it is approximate: Recorded for Ruwe Messe cuivre at a visit of 7 October 2020 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
    10.67283° S · 25.54238° E
    Precision
    Coordinate of IPIS’s open data, whose “location_origin” field reads “Approximation”; the datum is not stated.
    Evidence as of
    7 October 2020
    Coordinate reference system
    Unstated in the source

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

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Open questions

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Sources

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1 source

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 5004 (“vid” “5003”): “Ruwe Messe cuivre”, province “Lualaba”, territory “Mutshatsha”, visit of “2020-10-07”, location origin “Approximation”, “Cuivre” among its minerals, project “BGR”, source “Third-party”.