Method & snapshot
Source: the official ResourceContracts.org DRC country listing (resourcecontracts.org/countries/cd), the platform NRGI and the DRC Ministry of Mines use to satisfy EITI Requirement 2.4. Pulled and parsed June 2026. The corpus is a living set; treat counts as a dated snapshot. Each document below carries its ResourceContracts ID and a direct link; the full machine-readable extract is downloadable as CSV.
1The corpus at a glance
The 347 documents are dominated by State-owned-enterprise joint ventures, concessions, exploitation licences, amodiations, annexes and amendments. Gécamines is by far the most frequent counterparty, followed by the other state miners (SAKIMA, SOKIMO, SODIMICO, MIBA, Cominière, SACIM). The vintage skews heavily to the 2014–2018 “publication push”, with a thinner legacy tail to 1996 and a recent tail (2021–2025) that includes the 2024 Sicomines renegotiation and the 2025 US and EU mineral-cooperation agreements. Corroborated· RC site totalparsed listing
Composition is characterised from the parsed listing (a large sample of distinct titles), not a per-row tally of all 347; the authoritative machine-readable set is the live ResourceContracts CSV.
2Named-deal mapping
For each major asset: what the corpus actually holds, and the gap. Status reflects a structured title search of the parsed corpus.
| Deal | In the corpus | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Tenke Fungurume (TFM)Gécamines / Lundin / CMOC | Full chain: 1996 service contract, 2005 agreement + concession amendment, 2010 JVA + concession amendment, 2013 service contract, and the 2023 CMOC Protocole d’Accord settlement. | Well covered |
| SicominesGécamines / China Railway / Sinohydro · PowerChina / Huayou | 2008 foundational JVA, 2009 JVA, and the 2024 renegotiated JVA (China Railway, PowerChina, Huayou). Plus the related Sino-Congolaise des Mines SARL MOU/concession/amendment/JVA (2010–2021). | Well covered |
| DeziwaGécamines / CNMC / SOMIDEZ | 2016 JVA, 2017 SOMIDEZ agreement, 2019 agreement. | Framework presentoperative subcontracts still the documented gap (per Global Witness) |
| Kamoa-KakulaIvanhoe / Zijin / State | Two 2016 agreements (Gécamines–Kamoa Copper–Kamco; Kamoa Copper–Zijin–Kamoa Holding). | Partialshare-transfer agreements present; full mining convention not clearly published |
| Kisanfu (KFM)Gécamines (later CMOC/CATL) | 2009 JVA (Société Minière du Katanga, Kisanfu Mining). | Legacy only |
| Boss MiningCAMEC → ENRC / ERG | 2009 JVA (CAMEC) and 2018 JVA (ENRC Africa Holding). | Covered |
| Mutanda (MUMI)Glencore (via Samref/Gertler) | Only the 2001 founding JVA (Samref Congo), the 2017 Fleurette Mumi JVA, and Gertler/Ventora documents. | Major gapGlencore-era operating contracts absent |
| KCC / KamotoGlencore / Gécamines | Not located in the ResourceContracts corpus. | Not located |
| Metalkol / Roan (RTR)ERG | Not located in the ResourceContracts corpus. | Not located |
| COMMUSZijin / Gécamines (Kolwezi) | Not located in the ResourceContracts corpus. | Not located |
For the present/absent pattern. The “not located” rows are rated corroborated (structured search, single repository), see the caveat below. Well corroborated· RC corpus (primary)Carter CenterGlobal Witness
3What the inventory reveals
The 2024 Sicomines renegotiation is in fact published. The earlier landscape note flagged the full-text status of the 2024 amendment as unclear. The inventory corrects that: the renegotiated JVA (Gécamines with China Railway, PowerChina and Huayou, 2024) is in the corpus. This is exactly the kind of correction a triangulated index produces over a one-pass reading.
The gaps cluster around the Western-operated majors and recent amendments. The historic Gécamines JV lineages are well represented because they passed through the 2007–2011 contract review and the 2014–2018 publication push. The assets that are not well represented (KCC, Metalkol, COMMUS, Glencore-era Mutanda) are largely the later or Western/Chinese-operated ones whose operating contracts and amendments post-date that push. This matches, from primary data, what the Carter Center, NRGI and Global Witness argued narratively: the systematic gap is post-2018 amendments, operative subcontracts behind framework documents, and JV side-agreements.
Disclosure is fragmented by repository. ResourceContracts is the richest single source, but it is not complete. Some documents absent here sit on congomines.org or the Ministry portal; titles and amendments are unevenly distributed across the three. A user cannot rely on any one location to see a full deal.
4The data
The verified major-deal documents (with ResourceContracts IDs and direct links) are available as a structured file: contracts-inventory.csv. The authoritative, always-current machine-readable set for all 347 documents is the live ResourceContracts export at resourcecontracts.org/countries/cd (use its Download → CSV).
5Caveats
- “Not located” is not “does not exist”. It means the agreement was not found in the ResourceContracts corpus via structured title search. It may be published on congomines.org or the Ministry portal, or under a different counterparty name.
- Composition is sample-characterised. The 347 total is the site’s own figure; the type/year/counterparty profile is read from the parsed listing, not a per-row count of all 347.
- Naming nuance. “Sino-Congolaise des Mines” is the formal name of Sicomines; the simple “Sino-Congolaise des Mines SARL” entries are grouped with the Sicomines family but may reference the operating company rather than the headline consortium convention.
- Snapshot. Pulled June 2026. The corpus grows; re-pull before relying on counts at a client-facing moment.