<P> Montreal - based Shamika Resources has been exploring for tantalum, niobium, tin and tungsten in the Eastern DRC and Loncor Resources for gold, platinum, tantalum and other metals . Two Canadian - registered companies own petroleum concessions in the DRC: Heritage Oil plc, whose founder and former CEO is Tony Buckingham, and EnerGulf Resources Inc . </P> <P> Up until early 2011, four of the nine International Finance Corporation sponsored or proposed D.R.C projects were for Canadian - owned companies active in the DRC: to Kolwezi / Kingamyambo Musonoi Tailings SARL owned by Adastra Minerals Inc. ($50.0 m., invested in 2006), Africo Resources Ltd. (acquisition of Cdn. $8 m. in Africo shares, invested in 2007), and Kingamyambo Musonoi Tailings SARL as acquired by First Quantum, proposed in 2009 at a value of US $4.5 million in equity funding . </P> <P> In 2011, Canada's Fraser Institute annual survey of mining executives reported the DRC's ranking of its mining exploration investment favourability fell from eighth - poorest in 2006 down to second - poorest in 2010, among 45 African, Asian and Latin American countries and 24 jurisdictions in Canada, Australia and the United States, and this was attributed to "the uncertainty created by the nationalization and revision of contracts by the Kabila government". </P> <P> In 2012, Banro Corporation began gold production at its Twangiza mine, after owning gold concessions in the South Kivu and Maniema provinces, the Twangiza - Namoya gold belt, since 1996 . Six other Canadian companies have previously owned Congolese gold properties, including Barrick Gold (1996--1998), and Moto Goldmines (2005--2009). </P>

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