Mines like Rubaya have been at heart of discussions around M23’s takeover of part of eastern Congo, with the Congolese government alleging they want control of the minerals and are smuggling them ille ...

Three-quarters of the world’s cobalt, used in smartphones and laptops, comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo. This ...

Metal investment company Cobalt Holdings is targeting June for an initial public offering in London in what would potentially be the biggest UK first-time share sale in the mining and energy ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -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 ...

At the start of the year cobalt prices fell to their lowest level ever on an inflation adjusted basis and reached near decade lows nominally. A surge in supply from the Congo, responsible for 80% ...

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 ...

Among them are more than 360,000 children ... and cobalt is the fuse. Raw cobalt bound for processing at the Etoile mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Credit: Bloomberg What’s happening ...

"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 ...