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The plaintiffs accused the five companies of joining suppliers in a "forced labor" venture by purchasing cobalt, which is used to make lithium-ion batteries that are widely used in electronics.
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 report also highlighted a neighborhood in Kolwezi, home to 39,000 people, that has been facing continuous demolitions since 2015 to make way for an open-pit copper and cobalt mine.
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.
Cobalt Red is the first-ever book to investigate human rights and environmental abuses involving the mining of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The DR Congo supplies almost 75 percent of the world's supply of cobalt, which is used in the manufacture of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries found in smartphones, tablets, laptops, and ...
China dominates the electric car industry, accounting for three-quarters of global lithium-ion battery production. Most refining of lithium, cobalt, and graphite takes place in China. Japan and Korea host significant midstream cell manufacturing and downstream supply chain activities.
By 2017, several cobalt exploration companies were focusing on the area around Cobalt, [23] as one alternative to cobalt mining in the politically-unstable Democratic Republic of Congo. [24] Roughly 60% of the world's cobalt is mined in the Congo, much of it using child labour in very poor working conditions.
Huayou Cobalt Co., Ltd was founded in the year 2002. In 2006, Huayou established its first cobalt mine and smelter in Congo. Quzhou Huayou Cobalt New Material Co Ltd founded on May 30, 2011, with a registered capital of 700 million yuan($101 million) (the registered capital was increased to 1.2 billion yuan in January 2016).