The process starts at the mine. The mines used in the project are the Mai Baridi and Kisengo mines located in the northern part of the Katanga province in the DRC. Mining Minerals Resources  SPRL (MMR) has rights to these concessions and have contracted with Coopérative Des Artisanaux Miniers du Congo (CDMC) a mining co-op to manage the artisanal miners at the mines. To facilitate a more efficient and safer mining environment MMR operates the mines as a semi-mechanized process.  MMR uses heavy equipment to remove the overburden (the soils above the ore body) to expose the ore body for the artisanal miners to then mine. The minerals are collected, weighed and logged as part of the iTSCi traceability process. Once the minerals have been properly logged by local SEASCAM agent, they are transported to an MMR depot in Kalemie, DRC for export.  It is at this point that AVX Corporation (AVX )takes ownership of the minerals for transport to the F&X Electro-Materials Limited  (F&X ) smelter in Guandong China. F&X will process the material into tantalum powder for AVX. The powder is then shipped to AVX’s facility in the Czech Republic to be made into tantalum capacitors. These capacitors will then be shipped to manufacturing operations to be incorporated into products produced by Motorola Solutions, HP and Intel.