So much noise and so much BS being touted by so called keyboard experts with other agendas. This is directly related to copper but you get my drift hey
There's a strange thing about the fear going through the global mining industry after the Democratic Republic of Congo signed an order to lift royalties last week: Compared with most other countries, these levies are still relatively low. The existing 2 percent rate on copper extraction compares with royalties five times that level in Chile and Peru, the two biggest producers.
Even at the new 3.5 percent rate proposed by the country's national assembly, charges will still be lower than those paid in Australia and the U.S., according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers database of copper royalties. (There'll be an additional levy on windfall profits, too -- but the history of those taxes suggests little money will be raised, anyway.)