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Annie Thomas & Lucien Kahozi

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Annie Thomas & Lucien Kahozi

Artisanal miners collect gravel from the Lukushi river searching for cassiterite on February 17, 2022 in Manono. – The Democratic Republic of Congo is rich with Lithium, an essential mineral for electric car batteries, which nests in the remains of the former mining town of the city of Manono in the south-east of the country in the province of Tanganyika. To get out of poverty, the inhabitants of Manono, most of whom are artisanal diggers, place their hope in the investment of the Australian company AVZ minerals which plans to invest 600 million dollars in the construction of a lithium mining. (Junior KANNAH / AFP)
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DRC tin mining town finds hope in lithium

Manono, a town in Tanganyika province in southeast Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a textbook case of a mining town that went from boom to bust

  • Annie Thomas & Lucien Kahozi
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