Large swathes of the deep-sea floor contain nodules of the critical minerals cobalt, copper ... it comes to critical minerals." Deep-sea mining equipment being deployed by The Metals Company ...

One risk for the DRC is that export restrictions and higher prices could incentivize the development of additional cobalt mining capacity in Indonesia and elsewhere. Last year Indonesian ...

The vibrations from the equipment ... This cobalt can come at a high human price. Seven years ago, revelations about dire working conditions in Congo’s informal mining sector vaulted into ...

from smartphones and computers to electric vehicles and manufacturing equipment. Over the past decade, Chinese companies have come to dominate cobalt mining in the DRC, controlling extraction, ...