The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) produces over 70% of the world’s cobalt, but most of it is refined in China, which also owns several Congolese mines. As U.S.-China trade tensions rise, the DRC ...

“The greatest beneficiaries of this system—China’s state-owned mining companies—remain silent ... States market under the presumption that the cobalt is extracted or processed with the use of child ...

A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee will hold a hearing Tuesday on metals, minerals, mining and how China “fuels conflict ...

Environmentalists say the new Trump executive order that could boost mining threatens the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...