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...
What's life like for kids mining cobalt for our gadgets? CBS News' investigation ofchild labor in African cobalt minesrevealed the shocking fact that tens of thousands of children are still growing up without a childhood. On Monday we showed you how most of the mineral used to make batteries...
Private European and American corporations invested heavily in the Belgian Congo afterWorld War I. Large plantations (growingcotton, oil palms, coffee, cacao, and rubber) and livestock farms were developed. In the interior, gold, diamonds, copper, tin, cobalt, and zinc were mined; the colony ...
The consumption of cobalt has tripled globally over the last decade, largely driven by rising demand for electronics and electric-battery vehicles. This fast-growing market has pressured multinational mining companies operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the world's largest supplier of ...
In 2023, the mine production of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) totaled an estimated 170,000 metric tons, the peak production volume in the indicated period.
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EGC chairman Gino Buhendwa Ntale was quoted by the news agency as saying: “The provision of these five mining areas from Gécamines to EGC will mark the beginning of the standardisation of artisanal cobalt mining and the structuring of local entrepreneurship.” ...
The country’s main economic resource is its mineral deposits; mining produces almost nine-tenths of total exports. The abundance of minerals in Katanga province was among those factors that attracted European powers to Congo in the 19th century. Minerals found in Katanga include copper, cobalt, ...
Congo(DRC) in Africa is one of the countries with largest reserves of copper-cobalt ore in the world.The Katanga Province in southern Congo(DRC),is an important area of the copper-cobalt ore belt.This article presents the application effects of the induced polarization (IP) sounding method to...
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