The report of a UN Expert Panel submitted to the Security Council in January found continuing problems in the exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo... The report gives examples of the illicit movement of weapons, saying that in the Ituri and Kivu areas there has been a clear correlation between the activities of “illicit armed actors and areas of natural resource exploitation”. Gold, cassiterite (tin oxide) and pyrochlor are identified as being at the heart of current security problems. [also refers to MIBA (Société Minière de Bakwanga) (joint venture Dem. Rep. of Congo Govt. & Sibeka - part of Mwana Africa)]