China's CMOC Group , opens new tab, which boosted its cobalt output by 144% during the first three quarters of 2023, is now on track to become the world's biggest cobalt producer, overtaking ...

China is the major foreign player in the DCR’s mining industry. As of 2019, China imported 83% of its cobalt and 9% of its refined copper and copper alloys from the DRC, and Chinese companies ...

Chinese mining companies are controlling day-to-day cobalt operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remotely, a new paper authored by employees of one of China’s biggest miners has ...

The trend has continued since the start of this year. China’s Zijin Mining recently said it planned to acquire a gold mine in ...

DUBLIN, June 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The 'Investigation Report on the Chinese Cobalt Market 2021-2025' report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets ...

China cobalt mine deal was ‘injustice’: my country did not get anything, ex-DRC leader says Congolese feel short-changed by mega infrastructure-for-minerals deals involving cobalt – a key ...

Interest in cobalt has increased in recent years due to its use in the lithium-ion batteries used to power electric cars.Global cobalt mine production reached a record high of 230,000 metric tons ...

Right now, most of the cobalt the US and its allies use comes from mines that are owned or controlled by China or the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And that's a potential problem.

Over the past two years, cobalt has emerged as one of the hottest commodities of the electric-vehicle revolution. The silvery-blue metal, an important component in lithium-ion batteries, has more ...

China's CMOC Group, which boosted its cobalt output by 144% during the first three quarters of 2023, is now on track to become the world's biggest cobalt producer, overtaking commodity group Glencore.