The world’s sources of critical minerals are increasingly concentrated in just a few countries, most notably China, leaving the global economy vulnerable to supply ...

CMOC urges DRC to lift cobalt export ban to meet Chinese client demand Glencore supports continued restrictions to stabilize global market Cobalt prices up over 50% since February amid tightened ...

China's CMOC Group, the world's top cobalt mining company, called on Democratic Republic of Congo last week to lift a ban on exports of the battery metal, which is currently due to expire next month, ...

Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, ...

In a vast storage room at a nickel plant in Hachinohe, northern Japan, a group of men in suits and hard hats are squatting on the floor admiring a row of trays. One contains a jet-black, rubble-like ...

Rubaya lies in the heart of eastern Congo, a mineral-rich part of the Central African nation which for decades has been ...

saying they’re concerned about the environmental impacts of mining on the playa. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, dominates world production of cobalt, another critical ingredient ...

For now, the fighting is far from the copper and cobalt mines in Congo’s southeast, where there are industrial mining operations run by the likes of China’s CMOC Group, the world’s biggest ...

The map above ... one of the largest copper and cobalt mines in the world, owned by Chinese company CMOC, in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on June... Trucks haul away ore from ...