Posts by ERG Africa

The Sakania community, in southern DRC near the Zambian border, entered a new era of food security and trade opportunities on 25 July 2018. All thanks to years of intense effort by Frontier Mine and its stakeholder engagement policy. It’s a story that stretches back to 2012 when the south-east Congo climate created a maize…

Excitement was high when the new primary school at Kabumba was handed over to the community on 25 May this year. The ceremony was conducted by John Robertson (General Manager, Frontier Mine), the Administrator of the Sakania Territory Antoine Luwa Liyolelo, the Chief and Development Committee of Kabumba, as well as the teachers of the…

Eurasian Resources Group is fully committed to being a sustainable and responsible business and we are proud of the progress we have made. The theme of our 2017 Report – Embedding Sustainability – reflects ERG’s journey to achieve integrated sustainability across all areas of our business to ensure we generate sustained, shared benefits for all…

ERG has received another uptick from a leading international credit rating agency, with Moody’s improving the Group’s long-term credit rating to B2 with a ‘positive outlook’. This announcement follows Standard & Poor’s upgrade of the Group’s credit rating to ‘B’ on 27 June 2018. Both upgrades have been awarded on the basis of ERG’s continued…

Edina Lungu, Artisan Boilermaker at Chambishi Metals since 2014, has a daughter (nine) and a five-year-old boy and says, “They are my world.” Edina has a trade test certificate in Boilermaking Engineering and a Mechanical Plant Fitting Craft certificate under her belt. Like so many other working mothers she admits it’s a challenge to find…

The much-anticipated DRC Mining Week took place from 13 to 15 June 2018. Luck Mumba (Head of Community and Responsible Mining Development at Metalkol RTR) represented the company by chairing one of the sessions tackling the topic of artisanal and illegal mining. Luck was recognised by the organisers as one of the best chairpersons at…

World Environment Day was celebrated internationally on 5 June with the theme “Beat Plastic Pollution”. As part of ERGA’s efforts to do exactly that, we organised a plastic collection competition at our Metalkol RTR project to combat one of the great challenges in the world – plastic waste. The competition’s overall goal was to do…

Cynthia Kawele, a copper engineering Plant Fitter at Chambishi Metals since 2015 was born and bred in Chingola. She attended Kabundi High School where her favourite subjects were Biology and Physics, and she expected to go into nursing. But when a vacancy came up at Kokola Copper Mines, an uncle who had always taken an…

On 14 June 2018, Metalkol RTR reached the milestone of 10 000 000 Lost Time Injury (LTI) free hours.  The project’s senior management, together with ERG Group CEO Benedikt Sobotka, commended at a joint mass meeting all employees and contractors’ considerable efforts in reaching this momentous milestone. In August 2017, a significant milestone was achieved when the…

Today, 12 June, is World Day Against Child Labour. It is a day for us to focus attention on the serious and real problems of child labour and the actions needed globally and by companies such as ours. Child labour is not only against the law, it is against our company’s human rights policy. Child…