We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
🌍 The cost of leaching copper oxide ore in the Central African Copperbelt is about to get even more expensive.
In the past few days a number of Middle Eastern Oil refineries have been attacked / closed. In addition, exports through the Strait of Hormuz have ground to a halt.
What has this got to do with leaching copper in one of the world’s largest copper belts ? Sulphur, or more specifically sulphuric acid.
Approximately, 50% of seaborne sulphur is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.
90% of sulphur imported into Africa is from the Middle East… and therefore passes through the Strait of Hormuz
The central African Copperbelt imports around 2 million tonnes of this sulphur per annum. The sulphur is used in local sulphur burners to convert into sulphuric acid, which is used by mining companies for leaching copper out of copper oxide ores. One part of sulphur makes 3 parts of liquid high-strength sulphuric acid. Therefore, 2.0 million tonnes of sulphur produces approximately 6.0 million tonnes of sulphuric acid.
The price of high-strength sulphuric in Kolwezi, on the western edge of the DRC Copperbelt, has been trading near all-time highs of $700-$800/tonne for the past 4-5 months, due to regional export restrictions, higher copper prices, as well as an already tight global sulphur market. This price will rise further.
I have heard that traders are already struggling to source any. Sulphuric acid prices will therefore significantly increase across Africa… and if the disruption lasts longer than ~3 weeks, copper oxide operations will have to close as they’ve run out of acid.
Oxide copper is the dominant ore source of copper produced in DRC… and the DRC is the world’s 2nd largest copper producer.
🔗 Robert Friedland
🔻They made it in a lab. They KNEW it would kill. And they released it anyway.
On June 18, 2026 — her FINAL day as Director of National Intelligence — Tulsi Gabbard declassified 4.7 million pages. Every email. Every wire transfer. Every internal memo they thought was buried forever.
What the media WON'T show you from those files:
PAGE 2,847 — NIAID Internal Memo, October 3, 2019:
"Phase 3 aerosolization test complete. Mortality projection: 1.8 to 3.2 million within 18 months of release. Recommend immediate halt."
Fauci's handwritten response: "Continue. Funding secured through Geneva."
THAT WAS 3 MONTHS BEFORE THE FIRST "CASE" IN WUHAN.
The money trail — now FULLY visible:
▪️ $47.3 million routed through EcoHealth Alliance to Wuhan between 2014-2019
▪️ $128 million in "preparedness grants" sent to 3 Swiss intermediaries
▪️ $2.1 BILLION in Moderna pre-production contracts signed AUGUST 2019 — 4 months BEFORE the pandemic was announced
They ordered the vaccine BEFORE the virus was public....
$735,720,598.00 just awarded to Pfizer by the CDC for infant Covid shots. Another $505,272,000.00 awarded for adult vaccines.
https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/ab3b1ada9fc34e05a0720007ff8e6a13/view
https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/0377009585864cf58dbd7a3fe3f55414/view
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