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Like copper and uranium before it, cobalt mining has been linked to widescale exploitation and child labour . Corruption and elite capture remain defining features of mining in the DRC.

on the extraction of cobalt in the DRC before it is shipped, mainly to China. Cobalt is extracted as a byproduct of copper mining. Artisanal and small-scale mining and child labour remain a salient ...