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Around 75 per cent of the world’s cobalt is mined in the DRC -- and the world cannot get enough of it. The rare, silvery metal is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery ...
The cobalt suppliers included Eurasian Resources Group, Glencore, Umicore and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, court papers show. None was named as a defendant. The case is Doe 1 et al v Apple Inc et al, D ...
Siddharth Kara's 'Cobalt Red' is a powerful exposé of cobalt mining, ... Pay these men, women and children a buck or two a day, then mix the mined cobalt into the supply chain, with nary a trace ...
Cobalt has historically been obtained as a byproduct of copper and nickel mining. [3] The electric vehicle boom in the 2010s created an increased demand for cobalt as a component of electric batteries. In response to that, Electra (First Cobalt Corporation at the time) emerged as a pure-play cobalt exploration and mining company in 2017. [4]
The Mutanda Mine (French: Mine de Mutanda) is an open-pit copper and cobalt mine in the Lualaba Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is the largest cobalt mine in the world. Accidents and spills at the mine have killed workers and polluted nearby rivers and fields.
The rest of equity in the mine is held by the Korean State-owned Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corporation (KOMIR). [1] [5] Until 2020, when production was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Madagascar, the mine was producing 4,000 tonnes of refined cobalt and almost 40,000 tonnes of refined nickel every year.
Cobalt documents the events in Cobalt, Ontario around the turn of the 20th century, in particular the power and role of mining companies. [2]The book notes how prospecting rushes are told from the perspective of White settlers, despite the trade in metals by Indigenous peoples for two thousand years prior.
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