African Business Review - April 2016

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ALPHAMIN RESOURCES

“We are developing a secure supply of fundamental material, our customers have to expend almost zero money ensuring it’s conflict-free” – Boris Kamstra, CEO other projects that are waiting in the wings require that kind of price to get going. However, we’re doing okay at the current pricing. It gives us a robustness and ability to absorb market gyrations which makes for a very nice business model while we move into production before 2019.”

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The DRC, Kamstra explains, is an incredibly wealthy area from a natural resource perspective. “Mining, hydrocarbons, agriculture, forestry, fresh water for cultivation and hydroelectricity – it has everything in abundance. However, when the US conflict mineral


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