Durba is a gold mine in the Haut-Uele District

Haut-Uele District

Haut-Uele District is a district located in Orientale Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo....

 of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

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It lies within the Kilo-Moto

Kilo-Moto

Kilo-Moto is a region in the far northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo where gold was discovered in the Ituri River by government prospectors in 1903...

 greenstone belt

Greenstone belt

Greenstone belts are zones of variably metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic sequences with associated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean and Proterozoic cratons between granite and gneiss bodies....

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As of 2011 a joint venture between AngloGold Ashanti

AngloGold Ashanti

AngloGold Ashanti Limited is a global gold mining company. It was formed in 2004 by the merger of AngloGold and the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation.AngloGold Ashanti Limited is now a global gold producer with 21 operations on four continents...

 and Randgold was actively developing a concession centered on this mine.

Between 1998 and 2000, co-circulating Marburg virus

Marburg virus

Marburg virus disease is the name for the human disease caused by any of the two marburgviruses Marburg virus and Ravn virus...

 and Ravn virus

Ravn virus

Ravn virus is a close relative of the much more commonly known Marburg virus . RAVV causes severe disease in humans and in nonhuman primates in the form of viral hemorrhagic fever...

 caused 154 cases of Marburg virus disease and 128 deaths among illegal gold miners in Durba and nearby Watsa

Watsa

Watsa is a community in Province Orientale of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, administrative center of the Watsa Territory.Watsa was the location of the VI battalion of the Force Publique in the 1940s and 1950s....

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