In 2019, a truck carrying sulphuric acid to Glencore’s Mutanda mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo collides with two other vehicles and kills 18 people in the spill.1 Just 4 months later, at Glencore’s neighbouring Katanga mine, 41 artisanal miners are killed when part of the mine collapses.2

 

1 “Acid truck spill kills 20 near Glencore Congo mine,” Reuters, February 22, 2019

https://uk.reuters.com/article/congo-glencore-accident/acid-truck-spill-kills-20-near-glencore-congo-mine-idUSL5N20H5BI

2  Stanis Bujakera, Aaron Ross, “Accident at Glencore mine kills at least 41 in Congo,” Reuters, June 27, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-congo-mining-glencore-idUSKCN1TS2CE