evidence: Global Witness’ investigation into a recent gold rush along the Ulindi River in Shabunda territory in eastern Congo reveals the extent of the problems that beset the region’s artisanal gold sector. The Ulindi boom generated more than a tonne of gold per year, worth around $38 million,[ii] whose beneficiaries included armed groups and a predatory Chinese-owned company, Kun Hou Mining, rather than the local population. [...] [v] IPIS, 2014, "Analysis of the Interactive Map of Artisanal Mining Areas in Eastern DRC: May 2014 update", http://ipisresearch.be/publication/analysis-interactive-map-artisanal-mining-areas-eastern-drc-may-2014-update/, p.11 [vi] Global Witness has seen official documents from the provincial Ministry of Mines in (former) Orientale Province, dated February 2015, which detail illegal activities and environmental damaged by semi-industrial dredges along the River Ituri and River Aruwimi, Ituri; see also research conducted by PAX, 2015, "Exploiter (dans) le désordre Cartographie sécuritaire du secteur aurifère à Mambasa occidental" http://www.paxchristi.net/news-media/resources-pax-christi-member-organisations ; and Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW), 2014, "Congo’s Golden Web: The people, companies and countries that profit from the illegal trade in Congolese gold" http://www.sarwatch.org/sites/sarwatch.org/files/Publications_docs/congogold3web.pdf p.38 [vii] See for example: Stop-Pillage, 2013, TRIAL, 2013, "TRIAL files a criminal denunciation to the Swiss Federal Prosecutor against a Swiss refinery company suspected of laundering looted gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo"