Chinese cobalt smelters have ample supplies of the battery-making material despite the export ban imposed by the world's top producer, the Democratic Republic of Congo, in late February, delegates at ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's four-month ban on cobalt exports is under review, the country's mines minister, Kizito Pakabomba, said at a cobalt industry conference in Singapore on Wednesday, ...

KINSHASA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has announced a ... and other electronic devices. The DRC's cobalt mining industry is primarily concentrated in the Katanga ...

Risks attach. The DR Congo, smarting at the price-crunching tsunami of cobalt unleashed by Chinese mining group CMOC, has to find a more permanent way of curtailing supply, and may do so as early ...

"The way that organization is going into Congo and Sudan to procure coltan and produce these cars," said Chris Christensen. Tesla has been accused of using child labor to mine for cobalt ...

The deal is aimed at raising funds for the construction of one of the largest copper-cobalt mines and processing plants in the Congo with the support of Trafigura Group as part of the Mutoshi project, ...