Namib Minerals is a newly listed, Africa-focused resource play with only one cash-generating asset, How Mine, and minimal ...

Thirteen-year-old Beni Cial Yumba Musoya used to spend her days scavenging for cobalt under the scorching sun in the artisanal mines ...

DRC Cobalt Mines Grab Global Spotlight Again By Metal Miner - Oct 25, 2023, 1:00 PM CDT The Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) is investing $800 million in the DRC's Comide copper and cobalt mine to ...

Cobalt prices are surging after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the world’s largest producer, extended its export ban by three months in a bid to address global oversupply and stabilize ...

In addition to its cobalt output, the mine is the DRC’s largest copper producer. Cobalt production out of Tenke in 2023 increased by nearly 85 percent from 2020 levels.

Chinese miner CMOC Group Ltd. produced more cobalt at its two projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the first half, ...

A worker packs bags containing cobalt hydroxide at the Mutanda industrial mine, one of the large industrial copper-cobalt mines in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Lualaba province, June ...

Samsung has been less specific about what it is doing. When it was criticised in 2016 by Amnesty for sourcing its cobalt from the DRC, it promised to investigate."We will share the report of ...

The DRC artisanal mines, which produce roughly 13% of total global cobalt supply, employ creuseurs, independent miners with little safety equipment, as young as 10.

After such exploratory work, the researchers found that cobalt mining was associated with increases in violence, substance abuse, food and water insecurity, and physical and mental health challenges.

Concerns arose about mining practices in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and cobalt was so critical that Apple actually purchased its own cobalt mine in the DRC to lock down a reliable ...

Concerns arose about mining practices in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and cobalt was so critical that Apple actually purchased its own cobalt mine in the DRC to lock down a reliable ...