The article presents a report by the firms, Amnesty International and African Resources Watch which reveals that cobalt mined children are being used by electronic firms like Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in their smartphones. It mentions about the intermediaries through which the ...
According to Amnesty, traders purchase mined minerals from smaller cobalt producers and sell it to Congo Dongfang Mining (CDM), a subsidiary of Chinese mineral purveyor Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Ltd. (Huayou Cobalt). From there the cobalt moves on to three battery manufacturers in China and ...
Cobalt mined dangerously by children in the Democratic Republic of Congo could end up in the lithium batteries of smartphones and electric cars made by Apple, Samsung or Sony, Amnesty International said Tuesday. Gwenn Dubourthoumieu / AFP | Children at work in a mine in Kamatanda, in the ...
The children's cobalt is brought to a large market where it is bought by a Chinese company for extremely low prices. CBS News wanted to see whether there was any attempt to check at the market whether the cobalt had been mined by children, so Patta's team went back later, with a hid...
up without a childhood today – two years after a damningAmnesty report about human rights abuses in the cobalt tradewas published. The Amnesty report first revealed that cobalt mined by children was ending up in products from prominent tech companies including Apple, Microsoft, Tesla and Samsung...
With little regulation requiring companies to trace their cobalt supply lines, and most of the world's cobalt coming from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the chances are your smartphone contains a battery with cobalt mined by children in the central African nation. ...
At the time, all of the companies were accused of knowing that the cobalt they buy to use in their battery technologies was originally mined by young children — and ignoring concerns about it. "The young children mining Defendants' cobalt are not merely being forced to work full-...
Cobalt is therefore primarily mined as a byproduct of nickel and copper mining. From there, cobalt is produced by reductive smelting. DR Congo has by far the world's largest reserves of cobalt. Cobalt is primarily used in lithium-ion batteries for electric devices such as laptops and ...
Occupational and environmental exposure to Co and Cr has been previously linked to a wide array of inflammatory and degenerative conditions and cancer. Recently, significant health concerns have been raised by the high levels of Cr and Co ions and corros
The clean energy revolution hinges on the Democratic Republic of Congo — where conflict, corruption, and child labor are rife