{"id":3532,"date":"2026-04-03T10:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/3532\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:31:51","slug":"the-fight-for-mineral-data-in-drc-belgian-museum-us-mining-firm-at-odds-over-archive-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/3532\/","title":{"rendered":"The fight for mineral data in DRC: Belgian museum, US mining firm at odds over archive maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The fight for mineral data in DRC: Belgian museum, US mining firm at odds over archive maps\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P7nxySdDLjQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe fight for mineral data in DRC: Belgian museum, US mining firm at odds over archive maps<br \/>\n<br \/>\nJust a few kilometers from Brussels, the cellars of the Royal Museum for Central Africa hold one of the world\u2019s most valuable mining archives. Colonial-era maps and surveys had previously detailed minerals like cobalt, lithium, coltan, and tungsten, essential for the digital and energy transition. Now, a battle over digitization is unfolding, with these documents literally worth their weight in gold. KoBold Metals, backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, is looking to AI in order to locate new deposits faster.<br \/>\n#minerals #DRC #Belgium<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fight for mineral data in DRC: Belgian museum, US mining firm at odds over archive maps Just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,6977,6974,5387,22,23,20,21,650,6975,6976,6978,6979,31],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-africa","tag-archives","tag-belgium","tag-drc","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-infos","tag-kinshasa","tag-kivus","tag-maps","tag-minerals","tag-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116340338348986298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}