Cooperative

VIMATED

ITIE-RDC’s study of 15 July 2025 on the artisanal copper-cobalt chain lists VIMATED in its table of cooperatives of pp.188-189. It is also listed in ITIE-RDC’s artisanal report of 27 March 2023, on a site sheet of its annex.

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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.

    PDF p.188, the table that follows Tableau 27 and carries no caption, row “10”: cooperative “VIMATED”. · PDF p.273, annex Tableau 17 “Coopératives tolérées dans les sites de KPM”: cooperative “VIMATED”.

  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

    PDF p.231, site sheet of the annex, block “Coopératives”: “VIMATED”.