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Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a ...
The mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: Industrie minière de la République Démocratique du Congo) produces copper, diamonds, tantalum, tin, gold, and more than 70% of global cobalt production. [1] Minerals and petroleum are central to the DRC's economy, making up more than 95% of the value of its exports. [2]
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.
A joint venture of Katanga Mining (75%) and Gécamines (25%) began mining Tilwezembe, an open-pit copper and cobalt mine, in 2007. [19] As of 2011 Katanga Mining was 74.8% owned by Glencore . [ 20 ]
Congo is by far the world’s largest producer of cobalt, a mineral used to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and other products, and it is also Africa’s top producer of copper ...
A desperate search for survival – women and children as young as nine years old spend hours each day digging at a cobalt mine in Kolwezi City in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Kamoto Mine (French: La mine de Kamoto) is an underground copper and cobalt mine to the west of Musonoi in the former Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2] As of 2022, the site is the largest active cobalt mine in the world. [3] The mine includes the Luilu metallurgical plant, which accepts ore from KOV mine and Mashamba ...
What’s remarkable about cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo is that more than half the world’s cobalt in buried there, in a land riven by cruelty and corruption for centuries ...