A new documentary looked at ways to reduce the human and environmental harms stemming from the mining of "critical minerals." ...

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Bleak photos show the reality of the cobalt mining industry responsible for the batteries in your phone, ... There are an estimated 200,000 people in the DRC working in these mines, ...

Critical mineral mining is accelerating to meet green energy demands but faces environmental and human rights challenges.

Well, you put them in a tight pit, cram them with 10,000 other people and pay them a couple of dollars, and they'll produce thousands of tons of cobalt per year for almost no wages. And so that's ...

China’s CMOC Group produced more cobalt at its two mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the first half of this year, despite the African nation’s ban on exports. The world’s largest ...

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 ...

May 14, 2020 — Its name conjures an image of vivid deep blues. But when cobalt is dug out of the ground in ore form, there’s barely a hint of the rich hue it lends its name to. In the Democratic ...

Artisanal and small-scale mining plays a critical role in supplying the world with minerals vital for decarbonization, but this kind of mining typically lacks regulation and can be socially and ...

Dubbed the “Saudi Arabia of cobalt”, Congo is home to around 110 million people, and a vast array of mineral resources to power everything from wind turbines to next-generation weapons systems.

Mining and mineral processing company Cobalt Blue Holdings has secured a three-year extension to major project status for the ...

I asked Ziki what he thought of people who profited from cobalt mining. “I have sadness in my heart when I think of people who buy the minerals,” he said.