The Société Minière et Industrielle du Kivu (Sominki) was a privately held mining company of Zaire.
Cobelmin and MGL were both located at Kamituga in Kivu Province, which had a large gold mine and was in the center of the tin-bearing cassiterite region.
[1] The Société Minière et Industrielle du Kivu (Sominki) was created to hold all the mining assets by a convention of 31 May 1974.
[5] The Mobale mine was producing 311 kilograms (686 lb) per year, but during the civil war it was overrun and flooded, and had to close early in 1997.
[9] Banro agreed to invest $15 million in Sakima in exchange for a 10 year post-production tax moratorium, waived import duties and the right to export all gold production.
[9] In February 1997 Banro signed a convention with the Zaire government under which Sakima took over Sominki's mining projects.
[5] In June 1997 the ADFL government confirmed Banro's concession, and Sakima launched its $10 million exploration and development project.
[5][a] On 26 February 2016 five former employees of Sominki filed a Request for Review to the Canadian National Contact Point (NCP) on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
They claimed to represent 4,987 ex-employees of Sominki, and asserted that Banro Corporate had not complied with the OECD guidelines.