Fighting in Africa’s mineral-rich DRC killed over 3,000 in less than 2 weeks. Here’s how your phone plays a part
A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...
Another cobalt bust but this time it's different: Andy Home
The cobalt market is no stranger to boom and bust cycles but the current downturn is unprecedented and no-one is sure how ...
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Middlemen siphon billions from war-ravaged DRC’s cobalt, coltan trade
The DRC produces 70% of the world’s cobalt, yet nearly $1 billion vanishes from the legal supply chain each year.
Congo-Kinshasa: History Is Repeating Itself in Lubumbashi As the World Scrambles for Minerals to Go Green
Analysis - Lubumbashi is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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Congo: interests in coltan, gold and cobalt behind the violence
Reports from eastern DR Congo are not reassuring. The ongoing war in North Kivu is escalating into a regional conflict that is spreading far beyond Goma. Militiamen belonging to the armed group M23, ...
ERG Mulls Selling Mozambican Assets, Reviewing Congo Permits
Kazakhstan-backed Eurasian Resources Group plans to review some of its mining permits in the Democratic Republic of Congo and ...
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Another cobalt bust but this time it's different
But thanks to the company's two massive copper mines in the Congo it has rapidly grown to become the world's largest producer of cobalt, which comes as a copper by-product. Both TFM and KFM ...