The work is hard enough for an adult man, but it is unthinkable for a child. Yet tens of thousands of Congolese kids are involved in every stage of mining for cobalt. The latest research by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates 40,000 children are working in DRC mines....
The safe haven is funded by international charities including USAID and, most recently, by a global cobalt supplier, Congo Dongfang Mining (CDM). Their last reported annual earnings were over $100 million. After child-mined cobalt was exposed in their supply chain, CDM donated $71,000 to the...
The report, entitled 'This is what we die for: Human Rights Abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo power the global trade in cobalt,' also includes testimony from adult and child miners who work long shifts with no protective equipment, in danger of fatal accidents and permanent lung dam...
Hundreds of children in Kipushi, a mining city in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), finally received birth certificates that allow them to attend school for free. Many of the children had worked alongside their parents in cobalt and copper mines. UNICEF provided school kits...
Background Widespread environmental contamination caused by mining of copper and cobalt has led to concerns about the possible association between birth defects and exposure to several toxic metals in southern Katanga, Democratic Republi... DV Brusselen,T Kayembe-Kitenge,S Mbuyi-Musanzayi,... - ...
Using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), signal intensities (i.e., values) of the following 12 metals were measured: Mn, Pb, barium (Ba), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), lithium (Li), magnesium (Mg), molybdenum (Mo), strontium (Sr),...
In recent times, there had been reported cases of Pb poisoning in Anka gold mining area, Northwest Nigeria. Therefore, this study was carried out to determ
Bartrem C, Tirima S, von Lindern I, von Braun M, Worrell MC, Mohammad Anka S, Abdullahi A, Moller G (2014) Unknown risk: co-exposure to lead and other heavy metals among children living in small-scale mining communities in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Int J Environ Health Res 24(4):304...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s response to artisanal cobalt mining: The Entreprise Generale du Cobalt (EGC) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) supplies the vast majority of the world's cobalt used for the production of battery critical to the green transi... R Deberdt...
A CBS News investigation found that children are mining cobalt, an expensive metal used in batteries that power smartphones and electric cars. Foreign affairs columnist Bobby Ghosh speaks to CBSN about what companies like Apple and Tesla are trying to do to clean up their supply chains.Mar 6,...