Public tool · Mining law
DRC mining title check.
Locate an area, identify the mining rights covering it and prepare their official verification with the Mining Registry: an essential first step before any acquisition, partnership or investment.
Official source · Mining Registry
DRC Mining Cadastre Map Portal
Developed by the Mining Registry (CAMI) to promote transparency in the sector, this portal lets you search for a right by permit code, company name or mineral, or click on an area to display its details: type of right, holder, minerals, size and dates.
- Exploration rightsPR and quarry authorisations
- Exploitation rightsPE, PEPM, PER, quarries
- Pending applicationsregistered applications
- Leases and ZEAamodiations, artisanal zones
- Prohibited areasand geological research zones
- Administrationprovinces, territories, protected areas
drclicences.cami.cd
Search the official Mining Registry portal
- By permit codee.g. PR or PE number
- By holdercompany or individual name
- By mineralcopper, cobalt, gold, coltan…
- On the mapclick an area to open its record
The portal opens in a new tab on the Mining Registry website. Click “Continue” when it opens to access the map and search.
Source: DRC Mining Registry (CAMI), DRC Mining Cadastre Map Portal (drclicences.cami.cd), built with Spatial Dimension. According to CAMI, the information is generally updated every working day.
Method
How to check a mining title
The portal provides a first check. The legal verification of a title then follows a precise process, which the Firm conducts for its clients.
- Search for the rightEnter the permit code, company name or mineral, or navigate to the site and identify the areas covering it.
- Identify the rightNote the code, category, holder, minerals, size, grant and expiry dates, and any pending applications.
- Obtain written confirmationRequest certified cadastral information and the file’s instruments from CAMI, the only ones enforceable against third parties.
- Check validityVerify payment of annual surface fees, environmental obligations, renewals and the absence of forfeiture.
- Review encumbrances and conflictsIdentify registered mortgages and leases (amodiations), transfers, overlaps, prohibited areas and protected areas.
- Secure the transactionReflect these findings in the deal structure: conditions precedent, guarantees, representations and a timetable of formalities.
2002 Mining Code as revised in 2018
The main categories of rights
- Exploration permit
- PR — right to explore an area for a limited, renewable term, subject to conditions.
- Exploitation permit
- PE — right to mine a deposit established by a feasibility study.
- Small-scale mining and tailings
- PEPM and PER — small-scale mining and the exploitation of mine tailings.
- Quarries
- Authorisations to explore and exploit quarry products.
- Artisanal mining
- ZEA — zones reserved for artisanal mining and its approved cooperatives.
Reliability
A consultation, not a certificate
The portal is the official source published by CAMI. Its data is updated regularly, but a recent transaction (transfer, renewal, relinquishment, forfeiture) may not yet appear: the date of the last update is shown when the portal opens.
Only the Mining Registry’s records, the certified information it issues and the instruments of the mining administration are authoritative as to the existence, extent, holder and validity of a mining right.
The information displayed is neither legal advice, nor a certificate, nor a guarantee regarding any title or area.
Mining due diligence
A title to check before investing?
The Firm verifies the existence, validity, chain of ownership and encumbrances of mining titles, and secures the related acquisition, partnership or lease.
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