ABC News' Ginger Zee tours a new cobalt mining operation inside an Idaho mountain. By using only a tunnel system where they know the cobalt exists, Lengerich said Jervois can avoid disturbing the ...

At mine sites he visited, "people were caked in toxic filth, children caked in toxic grime and filth and scrounging in pits, trenches and tunnels to gather cobalt bearing ore and feed it up the ...

They use pickaxes, shovels, stretches of rebar to hack and scrounge at the earth in trenches and pits and tunnels to gather cobalt and feed it up the formal supply chain." Kara says the mining ...

Cobalt Red also documents many unreported deaths, including those of children buried alive in makeshift mining tunnels, and their bodies never recovered. The author shares the stories of Congolese ...

Cobalt mining is not new in Idaho or the U.S., but ... Rather than an open-pit mine, the Jervois mine is accessed through tunnels into the mountain, which will be refilled and sealed off once ...

Mining of cobalt is now linked to grave human rights ... Using shovels and their bare hands, they dig makeshift tunnels, into which they climb to gather rocks containing cobalt ore.

So far, Lengerich said they have 8,000 feet of underground tunnel created. The mine will run for seven years, although that number might increase depending on the amount of cobalt found.

cobalt dust in their lungs and — in some zones — yellow sulfuric acid dust caking their bodies and their homes. Loss of life and limb as narrow mine tunnels, fortified with twisted tree ...

Siddharth Kara’s “Cobalt Red” takes a deep dive ... Here the miners toiled in open pits and tunnels; some, like the Shabara mine, were enormous: “More than 15,000 men and teenage boys ...