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Coltan is the colloquial name for the mineral columbite-tantalum ("col-tan"). In the early 21st century coltan mining is associated with human rights violations such as child labour, systematic exploitation of the population by governments or militant groups, exposure to toxic chemicals and other hazards as a result of lax environmental protection, and general safety laws and regulations. [1]
Mining of coltan is mainly artisanal and small-scale and vulnerable to extortion and human trafficking. [47] A 2003 UN Security Council report [ 48 ] stated that much of the ore is mined illegally and smuggled across Congo's eastern border by militias from neighbouring Uganda , Burundi and Rwanda. [ 49 ]
In addition, long term health effects are common when mining coltan due to the presence of radioactive material within the mineral. [26] In countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Democratic Republic of Congo lucrative trading of minerals, such as coltan, has occurred due to lack of state control of artisanal and small-scale mining in the ...
The protests followed a demand by the mining district’s lawmaker, Mohammed Dosii, who on Tuesday asked for an immediate withdrawal of armed Deadly mining protests in Liberia kill 1 and injure ...
The Comptoir Minier des Exploitations du Burundi S.A. (Burundi Mining Exchange, COMEBU) is privately owned. [1] COMEBU was granted a 25-year mining license to exploit coltan and cassiterite in the Commune of Kabarore, Kayanza Province, and cassiterite in Murehe, Kirundo Province. The two concessions covered 39 square kilometres (15 sq mi). [2] [a]
Iron ore mining. The mining industry of Liberia has witnessed a revival after the civil war which ended in 2003. [1] Gold, diamonds, and iron ore form the core minerals of the mining sector with a new Mineral Development Policy and Mining Code being put in place to attract foreign investments. [2]
The main topic of conflict minerals regulations, clockwise from top left: coltan (tantalum ore), cassiterite (tin ore), gold ore, and wolframite (tungsten ore). Conflict mineral laws are laws passsed in the European Union and United States beginning in 2010 that require companies to report the use of four conflict minerals.
The Mining Company of Liberia was possibly the first mining company in Liberia.This company was founded by Liberians, after the return of the Liberian explorer Benjamin J.K. Anderson from the interior in 1869, and was granted a concession in the same year, during the (first) administration of President James Spriggs Payne and only a few years after the formal establishment of a ‘closed door ...