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a smelter to have a very solid stream of conflict free material within their system with a great degree of certainty and that can be passed on to the larger companies ,” says Kamstra .
The conflict legislation does not stop there . As is common place in the DRC , trucks hauling resources can and have been seized and for Alphamin , the legislation and close communication with the government allows the company to remain in control , even if the worst case scenario were to happen .
“ We can alert the tin community that we ’ ve lost X tons of material and we will have the full specifications of it . The people who have it will now be restricted as to who they can sell it to , as the main stream smelters will not be partial to buying it ,” says Kamstra .
What this effectively does is sterilise the economic value of the material and Alphamin ’ s mine in anyone else ’ s hands .
“ There ’ s a kind of in built insurance policy that should any of our material
“ For the first time everyone in Walikale can almost taste a future that ’ s going to be a better future for their children and families than it ever was for them . It ’ s a wonderful backdrop to be working against ”
– Boris Kamstra , CEO
24 November 2016