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 ...

In the middle of a trade war, Congo is trying to woo Trump’s White House without risking critical investment from Beijing.

from which 60-70% of the world’s cobalt is extracted (see map). Most of Congo’s cobalt is a by-product of large copper mines which cannot quickly increase their output and have little ...

China's CMOC Group, the world's top cobalt mining company, called on Democratic Republic of Congo last week to lift a ban on ...

Dela wa Monga, an artisanal miner, holds a cobalt stone at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct. 12, 2022. Junior Kannah/AFP via Getty Images Sturmes said he ...

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 the world’s headlines after Amnesty ...

Microsoft visited an artisanal cobalt mine in Democratic Republic of Congo in December as part of attempts to jump-start formalisation of the little-regulated and dangerous industry that experts ...

they will all say supply chains are ethical but then you go to the Congo and you see it’s not true." Tesla, in 2020, closed a deal with Glencore, a Canadian mining company that runs a cobalt and ...

KAWAMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - JUNE 8: A worker descends into a copper and cobalt mine in ... More Kawama, Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt is used in the batteries for electric cars ...

Democratic Republic of Congo ... du Cobalt, or EGC, is now the only entity allowed to export so-called artisanal cobalt, according to new regulations signed by the prime minister and mines ...

Artisanal miners carry sacks of ore at a cobalt mine near Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, in October 2022. Scott: Wow. And you write about some of the organizers here in the United States ...