LONDON -- A U.S. court has absolved five of America's biggest tech companies in a case over their alleged support of child labor in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday The ...

KINSHASA, (June 12, 2024) – Children working in some of the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) cobalt mines are getting support to trade their tools for textbooks to escape from dangerous and even ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has initiated a state monopoly to oversee the production and export of artisanal cobalt, reported Bloomberg. On 21 February, new regulations were established ...

Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a ...

Activists are concerned that high-profile cobalt consumer Tesla isn’t doing enough to demand that its cobalt be mined ethically without the use of child or forced labor. The EV company says it ...

The demand for cobalt and other minerals is fueling a decades-long humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the ...

Cobalt is used in the manufacture of almost all lithium ion rechargeable batteries used in the world today. And while those outside of the DRC differentiate between cobalt extracted by the country ...

Cobalt is a vital component of electric vehicle (EV) batteries, but is largely sourced from the DRC where human rights investigations have found child labor is rampant.

The DRC is the world's largest producer of cobalt, with about 70 percent of the world's deposits of the mineral essential for the production of batteries for electric cars ...

DRC extended its cobalt export ban to September 2025 due to high stock levels. • Major producers like CMOC face delivery issues; supply risks remain but demand stays strong. • Prices are volatile ...

Even so, the DRC is expected to remain the primary producer of cobalt in the near to medium term. “Oversupply has been the dominant driving force for cobalt prices since 2023, and this is likely ...