Rwanda: Kagame Says Rwanda Not Plundering DRC Coltan

Jan 16, 2015 | News of Rwanda
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President Paul Kagame has offered free visa and air ticket to anyone disputing Rwanda's Coltan (tantalum) production capability to visit the country's active mining sites.

"Rwanda has not only enough Coltan but of a very high quality. It is something that has been known for years,"Kagame said Thursday at a monthly Press Briefing at Village Urugwiro.

Kagame told KTPress that whoever is having confusion about Rwanda's Coltan production, "we can even pay a ticket for them, we shall give them a visa and we shall take them to the mines. If only they won't want to stay there and keep mining. For anybody with that confusion, there is a simple way and not so expensive to sort it out."

In 2013, Rwanda attracted global attention when it exported 2,466,025kgs of Coltan- this accounted for 28% of total 8,807,232Kg of tantalum produced globally. Rwanda earned $134.5M in revenue from the Coltan.