Gécamines
Company · Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Gécamines is a company in the mining industry with headquarters in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo , according to Wikidata.
Sites that name it
2
Sites in the atlas that print this company or a subsidiary as operator or owner. A name match, not verified ownership.
Listed plants that name it
16
Mines and plants in the USGS Minerals Yearbook tables under its name or a subsidiary's. No coordinates, so they are not on the map.
Countries of these sites and plants
2
Congo (Kinshasa), DR Congo
Overview
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On record
- Headquarters
- Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Stock listing
- —
- LEI
- —
- Website
- http://gecamines.cd/
- Record
- Wikidata Q391647
- Also known as
- GCM · Gecamines · Gécamine · La Générale des Carrières et des Mines · Représentant principal Glody kabila · Société générale des carrières et des mines
Where the linked sites are
- Mine or brine operation
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Supply chain
Sites and listed plants that print this company's name, or a subsidiary's, as operator or owner. A link is a name match, not verified ownership: the atlas does not know shares or control.
Sites that name this company or a subsidiary · 2
A company is linked to a site or a listed plant only where the source prints an operator or owner whose name, without legal forms such as Ltd. or S.A., equals the company's name in Wikidata. Nothing is matched on similarity or on part of a name, and a name that two companies share is not linked. The other names a Wikidata item gives count as the company's name. Where GLEIF lists an entity as a company's subsidiary, a record that prints that entity's name is linked to the company as 'through a subsidiary'. A link is a name match, not verified ownership, and a site without a link may still belong to a company in this file under a name no source connects to it.
- RuashiMine · DR Congo · Cobalt, Copper
- Tenke FungurumeMine · DR Congo · Cobalt, Copper
Mines and plants listed without coordinates · 16
Mines and plants the USGS Minerals Yearbook lists with Gécamines as operator or owner, by exact name. The source gives no coordinates, so they are not on the map. Capacity is not production.
| Material and product | Kind | Company, as listed | Place, as listed | Annual capacity | Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt—Continued > Mine—Continued | Mine | (Gécamines) (Government, 100%) | in Haut-Katanga ProvinceCongo (Kinshasa) | 900e cobalt.1 (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt > Mine | Mine | AG, 75%, and Générale des Carrières et des Mines (Gécamines), 25%] | Mines near KolweziCongo (Kinshasa) | 30,000 cobalt. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt—Continued > Mine—Continued | Mine | La Générale des Carrières et des Mines SA | Kamfundwa and Kilamusembu MinesCongo (Kinshasa) | 20,000e copper; (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt—Continued > Mine—Continued | Mine | Lubumbashi (STL) [La Générale des Carrières et des Mines SA (Gécamines), 100%] | LubumbashiCongo (Kinshasa) | 5,500 cobalt. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt > Mine | Mine | Molybdenum Co. Ltd., 80%, and Générale des Carrières et des Mines (Gécamines), 20%] | ProvinceCongo (Kinshasa) | 25,000e cobalt. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt > Mine | Mine | plc, 51%, and Générale des Carrières et des Mines SA (Gécamines), 49%] | KakandaCongo (Kinshasa) | 3,600 cobalt. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt > Mine | Mine | Sinohydro Corp., 68%; La Générale des Carrières et des Mines SA (Gecamines), 20%; and Société Immobilière du Congo (SIMCO), 12%] | ProvinceCongo (Kinshasa) | 5,180 cobalt. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt > Mine | Mine | Somidez Co. Ltd. [China Nonferrous Metals Corp. (CNMC), 51%, and La Générale des Carrières Carrières et des Mines SA (Gécamines), 49%] | Deziwa Mine in Lualaba ProvinceCongo (Kinshasa) | 80,000 copper. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt—Continued > Refined | Plant | Boss Mining SPRL [Eurasian Resources Group plc, 51%, and Générale des Carrières et des Mines SA (Gécamines), 49%] | Luita plant near KakandaCongo (Kinshasa) | 40,000 copper. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt—Continued > Refined | Plant | Katanga Mining Ltd. [Glencore International AG, 75%, and Générale des Carrières et des Mines (Gécamines), 25%] | Luilu plant near KolweziCongo (Kinshasa) | 300,000 copper. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt—Continued > Refined—Continued | Plant | La Générale des Carrières et des Mines SA (Gécamines) (Government, 100%) | Shituru plant near LikasiCongo (Kinshasa) | 21,600 copper. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt—Continued > Refined—Continued | Plant | La Générale des Carrières et des Mines SA (Gécamines) (Government, 100%) | Fonderie Electrique de Panda cobalt plant1Congo (Kinshasa) | 1,200 cobalt. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt—Continued > Refined | Plant | Sicomines [China Railway Group Ltd. and Sinohydro Corp., 68%; La Générale des Carrières et des Mines SA (Gécamines), 20%; and Société Immobilière du Congo (SIMCO), 12%] | Plant near Mashamba West MineCongo (Kinshasa) | 254,000 copper. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt—Continued > Refined | Plant | Somidez Co. Ltd. [China Nonferrous Metals Corp. (CNMC), 51%, and La Générale des Carrières Carrières et des Mines SA (Gécamines), 49%] | Deziwa Mine in Lualaba ProvinceCongo (Kinshasa) | 80,000 copper. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| Cobalt, CopperCopper and cobalt—Continued > Refined | Plant | Tenke Fungurume Mining SARL [China Molybdenum Co. Ltd., 80%, and Générale des Carrières et des Mines (Gécamines), 20%] | Plant near Tenke Fungurume MineCongo (Kinshasa) | 314,000 copper. (as printed) | 2022 | |
| GermaniumGermanium | Not specified | La Société pour le Traitement du Terril de Lubumbashi (STL) [La Générale des Carrières et des Mines SA (Gécamines), 100%] | Big Hill tailings treatment plant at LubumbashiCongo (Kinshasa) | 20,000. (as printed) | 2022 |
Money
What open sources say about the company as a business. The atlas holds no revenue, production or reserves by company.
Stock listings
As the Wikidata item gives them. A listing names an exchange and a ticker; it is not a price and not a recommendation.
No data yet. The Wikidata item gives no current stock listing.
No data yet. Revenue, production, reserves and capital spending by company are not in the atlas: no open source for them is loaded. Company filings are public, but reading them needs a step the atlas has not taken yet.
These figures are informational, not financial advice.
Sustainability
Four indicators, the same on every profile. For a company only one can be stated, and it describes the places of the mine sites that name the company, not the company's own conduct.
Carbon
Greenhouse-gas emissions of the company.
Not available: the atlas holds no emissions figure per company.
Water
Share of the mine sites that name this company which lie in high or extremely high baseline water stress.
0%of the linked mine sites
No percentile: the number of linked sites differs too much between companies to compare them.
- 0 of 2 sites with a class (2 mine and brine sites on record).
- It describes the sub-basins the sites lie in, a modelled property of the places. It says nothing about how the company uses water, and it covers only sites linked by name.
- Counted by site, not by tonnage: it is not a share of production.
- "Arid and Low Water Use" is a class of its own in the source and is not counted as high.
Land
Land taken up by the company's mines.
Not available: the atlas holds mapped mining area per country only.
Circularity
Recycled input used by the company.
Not available: the atlas has no recycling figure per company.
There is no overall score: the four figures measure different things and are not added up. How to read these figures
Risks & policy
Export controls that the countries of the linked sites apply to the materials those sites list. They apply to the country and the material, not to this company in particular.
Export controls in force
Compiled by USGS, effective January 2026. Not a live feed.
Export quota: Cobalt (2025).
Source ↗
Chokepoints at sea
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Sources
Every source this profile uses, with its licence, the years its figures describe and how sure the figures are. Each chip on the profile opens the single record.
- USGS Minerals Yearbook, Vol. III ↗16 records used
- Licence
- Public domain (U.S. Government work)
- As of
- 2022
- Confidence
- Reported
- WU Vienna mine database v1.0.3 ↗2 records used
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- As of
- 2022
- Confidence
- Reported
- Wikidata ↗1 record used
- Licence
- CC0-1.0
- As of
- 2026
- Confidence
- Inferred, needs review
- WRI Aqueduct 4.0 ↗1 record used
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- As of
- 2023
- Confidence
- Estimated
History & talk
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What we don't know yet
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- Parent company and subsidiaries: no LEI was found for this company (none on its Wikidata item, and no single GLEIF record with its exact name and country).Add data: Parent company and subsidiaries: no LEI was found for this company (none on its Wikidata item, and no single GLEIF record with its exact name and country).
- Production, revenue and reserves by company: no open source for them is loaded.Add data: Production, revenue and reserves by company: no open source for them is loaded.
- Stock listing: the Wikidata item has none without an end date.Add data: Stock listing: the Wikidata item has none without an end date.
- LEI: the Wikidata item gives none, or more than one.Add data: LEI: the Wikidata item gives none, or more than one.