Democratic Republic of Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo. It contained low-enriched uranium with a U-235 content of 19.9% —just below the 20% threshold defining highly enriched uranium. It is uncertain whether the rod was ever recovered. 

Nasraoui, M., Toulkeridis, T., Clauer, N. Bilal, E. 2000. Differentiated hydrothermal and meteoric alterations in the Lueshe carbonatite complex (Democratic Republic of Congo) identified by a REE study combined with a sequential acid-leaching experiment. Chemical Geology, 165, 109-132. 

Geographic distribution of West Nile virus has been described in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, west and central Asia, and most recently. North America. Recent outbreaks of WN virus encephalitis in humans have occurred in Algeria in 1994, Romania in 1996-1997, the Czech Republic in 1997, the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1998, Russia in 1999, the United States in... 

Australia, Botswana, Russia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, in decreasing order, account for —80% of the carats produced annually. 

Roberts, A. C., Paar, W. H., Cooper, M. A., Topa, D., Criddle, A. J., Jedwab, J., Verbeekite, monoclinic PdSc2, a new mineral from the Musonoi Cu-Co-Mn-U mine, near Kolwezi, Shaba Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mineral. Mag., 66, (2002), 173-179. Cited on page 636. 

The 14th of April, 1995, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). A 36-year-old laboratory technician checked into the medical clinic in Kikwit, complaining of a severe headache, stomach pains, fever, dizziness, weakness, and exhaustion [6]. 

The Kikwit Ebola outbreak was neither the first nor the last appearance of this dread disease. The first recognized Ebola epidemic occurred in 1976 in Yambuku, Zaire (near the Ebola River, after which the virus was named), where at least 280 people died. Three years later, 22 patients died in Sudan from a slightly different and less virulent form of Ebola. In 1996, about 100 people were killed by Ebola in two separate episodes in Gabon, and in 1999, an outbreak in the gold mining town of Durba in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 63 people. 

Ebola virus was first identified in 1976 when two outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) occurred in northern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) and. southern Sudan. The outbreaks involved what eventually proved to be two different species of Ebola virus both were named after the nations in which they were discovered. Both viruses showed themselves to be highly lethal, as 90% of the Zairian cases and 50% of the Sudanese cases resulted in death. 

Cimanga, K., K. Kambu, L. Tona, et al. 2002. Correlation between chemical composition and antibacterial activity of essential oils of some aromatic medicinal plants growing in the Democratic Republic of Congo. /. Ethnopharmacol. 79(2) 213-220. 

See Democratic Republic of Congo profile , BBC News (11 March 2014), http //www.bbc. co.uk/news/world-africa-13286306 (accessed 1 July 2015). 

Longanga Otshudi A, Vercruysse A, Foriers A. Contribution to the ethnobotanical, phytochemical and pharmacological studies of traditionally used medicinal plants in the treatment of dysentery and diarrhoea in Lomela area. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). J Ethnopharmacol 2000 71 411-23. 

Tsurukawa N, Prakash S, Manhart A. Social impacts of artisanal cobalt mining in Katanga. Democratic Republic of Congo 2011 [cited 2014 Aug 10]. Available from http //www.oeko.de/oekodoc/ 1294/2011-419-en.pdf... 

MEVERALOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COBALTIC OXIDES FROM THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO... 

Keywords asbolane, cobalt oxides. Democratic Republic of Congo, heterogenite, lithiophorite... 

After the sharp decrease in cobalt production from GECAMINES, some new plants were erected which treated locally the collected heterogenite ore in quite efficient small electrical furnaces. There was no separation between the white and the red alloys. In fact, the improperly called white alloy presently produced had a relatively dark purple color. Hereunder are data for typical pyrometallurgical operation of an electric furnace in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

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