The US Dodd-Frank Law, adopted in 2010, and similar EU legislation aimed at ensuring that companies that acquire tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold-called “conflict minerals” are not accidentally funded by violence.
But itsci was criticized.
Ken Mattisen, an expert on security and resources with an independent IPIS research group, emphasizes that the scattered nature of many small mines makes it difficult for the local authorities to monitor what is happening everywhere.
ITSCI Tags should be put on the bag itself to prove the origin of the minerals inside, but often transported to the point of the collection, where it becomes harder to trace from where the ore actually came, said Metisen.
He added that there is also a possible problem with corruption.
“There is even an accusation of government agents who sell tags to merchants because they do not earn a living. Therefore, traders then go to the Eastern Dr. Congo, and they themselves mark the bags.”
ITSCI did not respond to the BBC request for a comment, but in the past he defended his entry, saying that this scheme was subjected to a strict independent audit. He was also highly praised for “the well -being for hundreds of thousands of small miners.”
In the case of Ruby Itsci, she stopped her activity there shortly after M23 entered the city.
However, the group managed to continue exporting Coltan.
UN experts reflect a circular route showing how it is transferred to the proximity to the border of Rwanda. It is then transferred to “heavy trucks” that require road extensions to place them.
Rwanda has their own colton mines, but experts say that the unrtointed colon is mixed with the production of Rwanda, which leads to “significant pollution of the supply chains”.
The M23 has already participated in the Coltan business before the capture of the Ruby – setting up checkpoints and collection for them, Metisen reports.
“A lot of trade in these minerals has passed through the square controlled by M23 towards Rwanda. So Rwanda made profits from instability from the Eastern Doctor of Congo, and we saw that the exports to Ruanda had already increased,” he said the BBC.
