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Socrates Economou & James Nicholson
HEAD OF NICKEL AND COBALT TRADING & HEAD OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY, TRAFIGURA
"Trafigura began trading metals and minerals sourced from the DRC in 2005 and we have been the largest trader by volume for the past six years."
Marna Cloete
PRESIDENT, IVANHOE MINES
"It's hard to overstate how important the discovery is for Ivanhoe Mines, our operating partners, and the people of DRC."
Ralph Heath
REGIONAL MANAGER AFRICA, WSP GOLDER MINING
"In West Africa new gold projects create demand for feasibility studies and environmental work, whereas in the Copperbelt the focus has fallen on expanding existing mines."
Jean - Dominique Takis Kumbo
CEO, ENTERPRISE GENERALE DU COBALT (EGC)
"EGC was created in an effort to clean and control the entire supply chain of artisanal cobalt mining."
Mustafa Rawji
MANAGING DIRECTOR, RAWBANK
"DRC banks are in a relatively good financial position, with total deposits in the banking system at around US$14 billion and total lending at US$4-5 billion."
Marcus Carlson
COUNTRY MANAGER DRC, EPIROC
"It is important for us is to innovate through zero emission products and continue to play a key role in the automatization of the industry."
Federico De Simone
DIRECTOR, DE SIMONE GROUP
"The high raw material prices create a two-sided situation whereby some economies are helped by the high prices, while some sectors suffer due to heightened costs."
Sampson Koduah
WEST AFRICA GENERAL MANAGER, INTERTEK MINERALS
"Many new players are joining the market, while those who have kept a low profile over the years are now resurfacing, stronger."
Baafour Asiamah-Adjei
CEO AND FOUNDER, GENSER ENERGY
"Our strategy is to enter the Sahelian countries with a combination of renewable energy and trucked LNG from Ghana."
Simon Meadows Smith
MANAGING DIRECTOR, SEMS EXPLORATION
"Across the region, the old model of flying in expats to do the technical job combined with a few locals doing the rest of the work on the ground has to change and has started to change."
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