Investment Areas

Mining

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is known for its mining potential representing 1,100 different mineral substances. 

Every province in the country can claim to hold mineral wealth. The table below illustrates this reality and, at the same time, presents the various minerals that abound in the subsoil of all the provinces of the DRC

Provinces

Minerals

Bandundu

Diamond, oil, kaolin, clay,

Kongo-Central

Bauxite, pyroschite, limestone, phosphate, vanadium, diamond, gold, copper, lead, zinc, manganese, marble, black and pink granite, rock salt, iron, gypsum clay, talc, silica, kaolin, barite, oil shale,

Former Equateur Province

Iron, copper and associated metals, gold, diamond, limestone, kaolin, clay, granite, niobium, ochre,

Former Province Orientale

Gold, diamond, iron, clay, copper, kaolin, niobium, ochre, schist, asphalt, talc

Former Kasaï Oriental Province

Diamond, iron, silver, nickel, tin, clay, chrome, cobalt, copper, gold, kaolin, talc,

Former Kasaï Occidental Province

Diamond, gold, manganese, chrome, nickel, clay, cobalt, platinum, copper, iron, kaolin, lead,

Former Katanga Province

Copper and associated metals, cobalt, manganese, limestone, uranium, coal, niobium, gold, platinum, lithium, tale, tantalum, kaolin, niobium, wolfram, zinc, clay, bismuth, cadmium, germanium, cassiterite, iron, granite, gypsum, kaolin, monazite, salt, beryl (emerald), sapphire,

Nord-Kivu

Gold, nobium, tantalum, cassiterite, beryl, tungsten, manganite clay, bastnesite,coal, granite, monazite, niobium, platinum, wolfram, tantalum,

Sud-Kivu

Gold, nobium, tantalum, cassiterite, sapphire, amblyogonite, silver, clay, bastnesite, beryl, bismuth, diamond, diatomite, monazite, wolfram, zinc, tantalum,

Maniema

Tin, diamond, cassiterite, gold, amblyogonite, lithium, clay, copper, iron, kaolin, manganese, columbium, lead, talc, tantalum, wolfram,

Kinshasa

Clay, silica, kaolin, arkosic sandstone,

Source: ANAPI, 2021.