and the water has been contaminated with toxic effluents from the mining processing. What's more, he says, "Cobalt is toxic to touch and breathe — and there are hundreds of thousands of poor ...

Artisanal mining means these tens of thousands of ... So I have seen thousands of women with babies strapped to their backs inhaling toxic cobalt dust day in and day out, 10-year-old children ...

Cobalt mining abandoned this mountain range decades ... the mine’s open pit and underground tunnels left behind allowed toxic metals to flow into nearby rivers and streams.

Cobalt, mined as a byproduct of copper ... It identified at least 14 “significant toxic incidents” at the five mines in recent years, including tailings dam breaches and acid spills, with ...

A Canadian mining company has been hit ... expressed concerns in his assessment. "Cobalt is an essential element for human and animal life but is toxic in high concentrations," Bourgeois stated ...

In the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo's cobalt capital, southeastern Katanga Province, mining pollution is ... and community organizations, toxic pollution has caused deaths ...

Why should we mine toxic, high-sulfide nickel in northern Minnesota ... the African Congo is also known to use poor practices and slave labor in its cobalt mines. The Congo supplies 74% of the ...

Cobalt is essential to both human and animal life but is toxic at high concentrations ... find ways to reduce the amount of cobalt in the mine tailings for years, but has been hindered by a ...

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