DRC field checks
$450 路 Is the cargo where the seller says it is?
$149 路 Is this DRC company real, and is it who it says it is?
Covers Haut-Katanga and Lualaba (Lubumbashi, Likasi, Kambove, Kolwezi, Kipushi, Kasumbalesa and Sakania). Full refund if the check can't be done. Free account, and your ID checked first (free, a few minutes on your phone).
How it works
Order and pay through Copper Supply
Tell us the company or the site, and who to contact to arrange it. You pay Copper Supply, never anyone on the ground.
Our partner arranges it
Our field partner in Lubumbashi contacts the seller as "the Copper Supply field partner". Your name and your deal are never shared.
They go and look
Registers and the mining cadastre for a company; for a site, the material itself, its markings, the trucks, and who really controls it.
You get the report here
Dated, located photos, video and a written report in your account, usually within 3 to 5 working days.
Where we go
What a visit often shows
A field check is an independent visual and local check by our field partner, reported as seen on the day. It isn't an inspection: there's no sampling, assay, weighing or certificate, and it doesn't prove ownership, grade or that a trade is safe. For any lot you pay for, appoint an inspection company too.
Questions
A local check in the DRC copper belt, done for you by Copper Supply's field partner in Lubumbashi: either a company check (trade register, mining cadastre, registered address, US$149) or a site visit to one warehouse, yard, plant or mine site (GPS-stamped photos, video and a written report, US$450).
Haut-Katanga and Lualaba: Lubumbashi, Likasi, Kambove, Kolwezi, Kipushi, Kasumbalesa and Sakania. Elsewhere in the DRC, email sales@copper.supply first.
Any Copper Supply member whose ID has been checked. The ID check is free and takes a few minutes on a phone. It means nobody can send our partner to a site anonymously.
Photos are taken on Copper Supply and stamped at the moment they're taken with the job number, the time and the phone's GPS position. You also see the partner's GPS check-in when they arrive, with a map link.
No. It reports what was seen on the day. There's no sampling, assay, weighing or certificate, and it doesn't prove ownership or grade. For any lot you pay for, appoint an inspection company too.
You're refunded in full, and the refusal is recorded in your report. A seller who won't let anyone see the goods is one of the clearest warning signs there is.
You message them inside the job on Copper Supply. Contact details aren't shared either way, which keeps the partner independent of sellers and your deal private.
En fran莽ais : v茅rification terrain en RDC.
Pair a field check with an expert review of the seller's documents: one tells you the cargo is there, the other that the papers are right.