06/03/2026
China’s revised Mineral Resources Law explicitly places all overseas mining investments under state supervision. What was long assumed is now codified in law: Chinese mining abroad is more national strategy than commercial activity.
For the DRC, which supplies 76% of the world’s cobalt and hosts Chinese stakes in 15 of its 19 operating cobalt mines, this is a direct signal about the table the DRC is sitting at, and what it needs to bring to it.
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