Dangerous mining conditions plague Congo, home to the world's largest supply of cobalt, a key ingredient in electric cars. A leadership battle threatens reforms.Web
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Children still mining cobalt for gadget batteries in Congo 05:56. A CBS News investigation has found child labor being used in the dangerous mining of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Web
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BASOKO, Congo — In Yaliwasa, northern DRC, logs from 200-year-old hardwood trees lie rotting deep into the world's second largest rainforest. They were cut in a hurry to be exported to global ...Web
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Gen Z vapers on TikTok say they're quitting due to cobalt mining in Congo. Hannah Getahun and Sebastian Cahill. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images // Junior Kannah/AFP. Gen Z Tiktok users say they are ...Web
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At the centre of this trade is Congo Dongfang Mining International (CDM), which is owned by China-based Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Company Ltd (Huayou Cobalt), one of the world's largest manufacturers of cobalt products. CDM then smelts the ore at its plant in the DRC before exporting it to China.Web
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Sarah Louise Schupp is a communications specialist for the Brooks School. Siddharth Kara, award-winning author and anti-slavery activist, will discuss the immense toll cobalt mining has had on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at noon on Friday, November 10.Web
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A 2020 report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimated that between 18% and 30% of the cobalt produced by the Democratic Republic of the Congo is mined through ...Web
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The future of artisanal mining in the DRC. The Democratic Republic of Congo is the world's leading source of mined cobalt. However, the mineral has led to vast human, social, and environmental costs. For countries to achieve their net-zero goals, societies must fully embrace the electrification of existing and future infrastructure.Web
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the most resource-rich countries in the world — its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of $24 trillion. The ...Web
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Mining the Congo Rainforest: global demand for rare minerals is leading to increases in deforestation and degradation right across Central Africa. Copper, gold, diamonds, cobalt, uranium, and …Web
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa's second-biggest country by land mass, is rich in both those elements. But for much of its recent history, the hunger for minerals has caused environmental …Web
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Image courtesy of Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock. The Manono Lithium-Tin Project is an open-pit mining development in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in central Africa. It is estimated to be one of the largest lithium-rich LCT (lithium, caesium, tantalum) pegmatite deposits in the world. AVZ Minerals currently holds a 65% interest in ...Web
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Democratic Republic of the Congo: Industrial mining of cobalt and copper for rechargeable batteries is leading to grievous human rights abuses The expansion of industrial-scale cobalt and copper mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has led to the forced eviction of entire communities and grievous human rights abuses including ...Web
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Review. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. By Siddharth Kara St. Martin's: 288 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop ...Web
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"Biden's renewable energy crusade exploits and enslaves thousands in poor nations like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where children as young as 4 are forced to mine cobalt "Jason Isaac ...Web
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The world's largest cobalt supplier is the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ... Cobalt mining, however, is associated with dangerous workers' exploitation and other serious environmental and social issues. As such, questions have arisen as to whether the transition to electric vehicles and cobalt-based batteries is yet another example of ...Web
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By May 2019, Congo DongFang International Mining (a subsidiary of chinese company Huayou Cobalt) have built a mining site, with a walled perimeter and processing buildings (in blue). The pink ...Web
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Artisanal and small-scale mining are estimated to employ an estimated 200,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and over a million more are indirectly involved through trade and ...Web
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The five largest mines, i.e., Tenke Fungurume Mine, Frontier Mine, Sicomines Copper-Cobalt Mine, Kibali Mine, and KOV Mine, cumulatively produced approximately 46.82 …Web
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The Biden administration opened the door to financing mining projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Zambia to bolster the global green energy supply chain as it pushes ahead ...Web
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Democratic Republic of Congo. As legislation requiring large U.S. companies to disclose the origins of the minerals they use is meant to come into force this year, Crisis Group sent a mission to North Kivu to assess the different strategies used to fight conflict minerals and their impact in the field. For many years, it has proved impossible ...Web
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In Lubumbashi, another center of Congo's mining industry, 180 miles from Kolwezi, doctors have begun to unravel what has long been a mystery behind a range of health problems for local residents.Web
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Kara: There was one U.S. mining company in the Congo, and it had the largest copper-cobalt concession. They sold it in 2016 to a Chinese company. That was the end of the U.S. presence. There's still one European mining company there, but the rest are Chinese. The doors really opened in 2009, when then–President Joseph Kabila signed …Web
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Mining Laws and Regulations Congo D.R. 2024. ICLG - Mining Laws and Regulations - Congo D.R. Chapter covers common issues in mining laws and regulations – including the acquisition of rights, ownership requirements and restrictions, processing, transfer and encumbrance, environmental aspects, native title and land rights. Published: …Web
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The dangers of cobalt mining in the Congo. February 16, 2023 – Cobalt mining is taking a huge toll on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo …Web
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Child Labor. Small-scale mining in the DRC involves people of all ages, including children, obligated to work under harsh conditions. Of the 255,000 Congolese mining for cobalt, 40,000 are children, some as young as six years. Much of the work is informal small-scale mining in which laborers earn less than $2 per day while using their …Web
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The Congolese mining sector is on track to maintain the same level of production of its main metals this year and do even better than last year for copper, …Web
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More than 70 percent of the world's cobalt is produced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and 15 to 30 percent of the Congolese cobalt is produced by artisanal and small-scale mining ...Web
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Brazzaville, 11 October 2022 – The Republic of the Congo has taken an important step towards a sustainable mining sector today, with the launch of a $10.5-million project to …Web
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Tenke Fungurume Mine in Katanga, was the largest mine in Democratic Republic of the Congo, producing approximately 16.6 million metric tons per annum (mmtpa) of Run-of-Mine (ROM) and primarily produced copper (209.12 thousand tonnes) in 2021. The Tenke Fungurume Mine is owned by CMOC Group Ltd;Bohai Industrial Investment Fund …Web
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The five biggest Chinese mining companies in Congo that focus on cobalt and copper mining also had lines of credit from Chinese state-backed banks totaling $124 billion.Web
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Feb. 28, 2022. A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sidelined the Chinese owner of one of the world's largest copper and cobalt mines, a major victory for the Congolese government as ...Web
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Andre clocks into his job at the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo at 7 in the morning, and he leaves at 6 at night.Web
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Digging for cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 60% of the world's supply is found. ... Harrington said it was inevitable that there would an expansion in mining and in ...Web
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February 16, 2023 – Cobalt mining is taking a huge toll on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.), according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Siddharth Kara.. A new book by Kara, a visiting scientist at Harvard Chan School and an author, researcher, screenwriter, and activist on modern slavery, exposes …Web
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A further environmental impact of cobalt mining in Congo is the hazy air surrounding the mines, full of dust and grit, and toxic to breathe. Studies have shown that the risk of birth defects, such as limb abnormalities and spina bifida, greatly increased when a parent worked in a cobalt mine, linked to high levels of toxic pollution caused by ...Web
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4 Nov 2022. At the bottom of a crater in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 5,000 diggers pack tightly together, swinging hammers and picks to prise chunks of speckled blue-gold ore ...Web
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Some 20,000 people work at Shabara artisanal mine in the DRC, in shifts of 5,000 at a time. The DRC produced approximately 74% of the world's cobalt in 2021. Junior Kannah | AFP via Getty ImagesWeb
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