Global cobalt resources are highly concentrated. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the world’s identified cobalt reserves total 11 million tons. The distribution of cobalt ...

Cobalt prices and stocks surged in China after the Democratic Republic of Congo extended its export ban to September, ...

Cobalt prices and stocks surged in China after the Democratic Republic of Congo extended its export ban to September, ...

The DRC’s once-verdant southeastern corner hosts the largest, most accessible, highest grade cobalt ore deposits known on Earth. For EV buyers, Net Zero aficionados, and corporate and government ...

Firms continue to look for the best way to acquire these materials, but environmental safety and cost efficiency hang in the ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

[Photo: Roy Maconachie] It is often the case that women wash the raw ore after it has been extracted, and pregnant women handling radioactive cobalt report stillbirths. A Lancet study found that ...

On their backs, they carry dirty white sacks of raw copper and cobalt ore. “We make a good living doing this,” he says of his workers who operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

"The ore is mixed up," he says. "And that's still a bit of a concern in the copper and cobalt sector." That means that Better Mining, and other similar transparency programs, can't stop raw ...

not the mining of the raw ore. China mines less than 5% of world nickel or cobalt ore, yet they control approximately 75% of nickel and cobalt processing and sales worldwide. Read more ...