LONDON -- A U.S. court has absolved five of America's biggest tech companies in a case over their alleged support of child labor in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday The ...

DRC extended its cobalt export ban to September 2025 due to high stock levels. • Major producers like CMOC face delivery issues; supply risks remain but demand stays strong. • Prices are volatile ...

The demand for cobalt and other minerals is fueling a decades-long humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has initiated a state monopoly to oversee the production and export of artisanal ...

Cobalt mining in the DRC is marred by human rights violations, including child labor, driven by weak regulations and corruption. China's control over 70% of the global cobalt supply raises ...

Child labourers in Africa are being rebranded as 'artisanal miners' – it's time for the West to stop ignoring modern slavery ...

Another major company that extracts cobalt in the DRC is Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt of Tongxiang, Zhejiang province in China. It has a subsidiary named Congo DongFang International Mining, which has been ...

Nonprofits such as the Fair Cobalt Alliance and academics have warned that if investment does flow into the DRC from the U.S. as part of an effort to secure minerals, it would likely raise rates ...

While both the DRC and Indonesia saw significant growth, Russia’s annual tally remained unchanged from the previous year, despite the country boasting large cobalt reserves of 250,000 MT.Large ...

Most of the country's cobalt mining sites are owned by Chinese companies, and today, China is responsible for 80 percent of the refined cobalt output from the DRC. This has been the case since ...

In the DRC’s cobalt mines, desperate workers earn a few dollars a day to help power our digital lives. by John Rosenberg in the March 2025 issue. ... By the time one traces the chain from the child ...