Mining site

Sakatutu

Sakatutu is a site of the Ministry of Mines’ 2025 list of artisanal and small-scale copper and cobalt sites (CARTOMINES) in Kolwezi, Lualaba, recorded as abandoned at its evaluation of 1 April 2025, with cobalt as the mineral worked, on title PE 2604.

Evidence of commodities

site-specific cobalt

Location and title

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Approximate location
Why it is approximate: Reported for Sakatutu at the list’s evaluation of 1 April 2025; it is not established as an individual working, a site centroid, a title boundary, or a current operating location.
Reported coordinate
10.69545° S · 25.49999° E
Precision
Site-level coordinate reported by CARTOMINES; the datum and point-collection method are not stated.
Evidence as of
1 April 2025
Coordinate reference system
Unstated in the source
Sites d'exploitation artisanale et à petite échelle du cuivre et cobalt en 2025 ↗Ministère des Mines de la RDC

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Reported mining title: PE 2604
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

GécaminesProducer
- Holds the title to · Reported · Evidence as of 31 March 2026
  The mining cadastre (CAMI) lists Gécamines as holder of PE 2604 as at 31 March 2026. CARTOMINES prints PE 2604 for this site. The edge records who holds the title, not who operates the site.
  2 publishers, both independent of the companies involved
  2 sources
  1. Registre des droits miniers et de carrières au 31 mars 2026 ↗
    Cadastre Minier (CAMI) · Published May 2026 · Checked 1 October 2026
    EN COURS DE CESSION PARTIELLE
    p.20, N° 541 (cells TITULAIRES, NATURE, PERMIS, STATUS, LOCALISATION as printed)
  2. Sites d'exploitation artisanale et à petite échelle du cuivre et cobalt en 2025 ↗
    Ministère des Mines de la RDC · Published 2026 · Checked 30 September 2026
    Sites d'exploitation artisanale et à petite échelle du cuivre et cobalt en 2025
    map layer feature with properties.id=12

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.

4 sources

Cadastre Minier (CAMI)

Registre des droits miniers et de carrières au 31 mars 2026 ↗
Published May 2026 · Checked 1 October 2026
EN COURS DE CESSION PARTIELLE
Biwaya-related title rows: printed p.20 row 542 (PE 2605), p.30 row 1041 (PER 9687), p.33 row 1146 (PE 11229). Kamilombe-related rows remain in additionalLocators.

CTCPM

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".
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.

Ministère des Mines de la RDC

Sites d'exploitation artisanale et à petite échelle du cuivre et cobalt en 2025 ↗
Published 2026 · Checked 30 September 2026
Sites d'exploitation artisanale et à petite échelle du cuivre et cobalt en 2025
Map layer of the 2025 list of sites, at the address “api.php/sites/geojson” that the page calls; feature “12”: name “Sakatutu”, province “Lualaba”, territory “Kolwezi”, title “2604” of type “PE”, mineral “Cobalt”, state “Abandonne” at the evaluation of “2025-04-01”; the feature carries a point.