295:(Cominière) was created in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 12 April 2010. The purpose was to survey, prospect, research, mine, refine and export minerals such as tin and colombo-tantalite. Cominiere was owned 90% by the DRC government and 10% by L’Institut National de Sécurité Sociale du Congo, a large social security and pension fund.
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of
Britain acquired a majority stake in 1971. Between 1989 and 1991 Cominière raised fresh equity capital, sold some assets and liquidated others, but retained its investments in Matermaco and Verswijver in Belgium, and in Afrima and Immoaf in Zaire. Lonrho owned 82% of the shares of Cominière.
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In
September 2013 Cominière and MMCS of Mauritius started Manono Minerals a joint venture to exploit the Manono and Kitolo deposits in Katanga. MMCS held a 68% share. In 2016 the Ministry of Mines revoked the Manono Minerals mining permit and issued a permit for mining the same area to a joint
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venture between AVZ Minerals of
Australia. MMCS disputed the legality of the change. In 2016 the Canadian mining company Tantalex announced a joint venture with Cominiere to develop deposits of Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum (LCT) Pegmatites adjacent to the Manono-Kitotolo mine, formerly owned by
188:(Vicicongo) in 1924. It was founded under an agreement of 1923 that was modified several times afterwards. The colonial government held the majority of shares, and the Minister of Colonies named the president and managing director.
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123:) was incorporated in 1910 by Belgian financiers. In the Belgian Congo the company engaged in cotton, coffee, rubber, rice and cocoa plantations, forestry, construction, railways and energy. The Belgian limited company
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in
Colombia. The costs were far higher than expected. Martin Theves, future president of Agrifor, was sent to Colombia in 1935 to solve the problem, and managed to sell the railway to the government for a good price.
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In 1960 Cominière's main
African subsidiaries were nationalized, and the company redeployed to Belgium. In 1965 the Cominière group was owned only by private investors, most of whom were Belgian. The diversified
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Although there is no direct relationship between the new Cominière and the former
Belgian company, both were involved in the massive tin mine in
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Cominière was one of the four largest
Belgian companies that invested in mining and railways in the Congo, the others being the
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170:(CSK) provided 30% and Cominière provided 22.5%. Cominière revived the old project of a railway to the
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L'État et la propriété: Permanences et mutations du droit public économique en
Belgique de 1830 à 2011
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became independent in 1960. What remained of Cominière was acquired by Lonhro in 1971.
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to a full-scale operating company required 12 million francs of additional capital.
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regions in 1922 and obtained the concession in 1923. Cominière founded the
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In the 1930s a subsidiary of Cominière built a railway from
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Mining companies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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240:Société des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux du Congo
185:Société des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux du Congo
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214:Société Forestière et Agricole du Mayumbe
139:Société Forestière et Agricole du Mayumbe
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135:Ekwangatana
119:Cominière (
80:Area served
748:Categories
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710:2021-03-26
691:2020-08-30
646:2021-04-06
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620:La COMUELE
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575:2021-04-06
570:Le Soir.be
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38:Trade name
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331:Citations
246:Comuele (
212:Agrifor (
180:Haut-Uélé
97:Cominière
43:Cominière
434:, PT254.
301:Géomines
264:Immoaf (
252:palm oil
197:Sogamoso
162:Géomines
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223:Socol (
218:Mayombe
143:Mayombe
71:Defunct
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