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Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo -
Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) of Cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been the focus of many articles and news reports covering working conditions and child labour. The exponential growth in demand for cobalt – driven by its essentiality in the most common types of []
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Cobalt Mining in Congo - Cue Africa
2021-5-28 · Cobalt Mining in Congo. Congo, also known as Kinshasa or DR Congo, is the second largest country in Africa after Algeria with a population of 105 million. Cobalt is a chemical element with the symbol Co and atomic number 27. Like nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth’s crust only in a chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in ...
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Cobalt and the Congo: A Sustainable Green Energy ...
2021-4-13 · Failing to improve cobalt mining conditions in the DR Congo is an injustice to the people in eastern DRC. A sustainable green energy revolution cannot be built on human exploitation. A predicted rise in electric-vehicle output is forecasted to require a gross annual cobalt production of 314,000 tons by 2030, which is roughly 224% more than ...
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Why Cobalt Mining in the DRC Needs Urgent Attention
2020-10-29 · 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 ...
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The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush | The New Yorker
2021-5-24 · In 2016, China Molybdenum paid the U.S. company Freeport-McMoRan $2.65 billion for a controlling stake in Tenke Fungurume, a giant copper-and-cobalt mine about two hours east of Kolwezi; three ...
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Cobalt Mining – The Hidden Dark Side of Renewables ...
2022-1-19 · Tsurukawa, N., Prakash, S. and Manhart, A. (2011) Social impacts of artisanal cobalt mining in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo. Öko-Institut eV, Freiburg. Pattisson, P. (2021) ‘Like slave and master’: DRC miners toil for 30p an hour to fuel electric cars, The Guardian.
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Understanding cobalt’s human cost: Social consequences
2021-12-17 · Dec. 12, 2018 — Cobalt deposits in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of Earth's largest cobalt-mining regions, are 150 million years younger than previously thought, according to a new study ...
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Cobalt Mining - Cobalt Institute
Cobalt Mining Cobalt is mined across the world and the vast majority is produced as a by-product from large scale copper and nickel mines. Cobalt is only extracted alone in Morocco and some Canadian arsenide ores. 98% of cobalt production is mined as a by-product Technologies include both underground and surface mining. Various nickel and []
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Sustainability of artisanal mining of cobalt in DR Congo ...
2018-9-14 · Cobalt is used in rechargeable batteries, and half the world’s supply comes from one district in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This study
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Why Cobalt Mining in the DRC Needs Urgent Attention
2020-10-29 · 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 ...
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Congo launches state-owned cobalt miner - MINING.COM
2021-3-31 · Congo’s artisanal miners are the world’s second-largest source of cobalt after the country’s industrial mines. Consultancy CRU expects the DRC to produce more than 100,000 tonnes of cobalt ...
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Cobalt mining in the DRC: the dark side of a clean future
Yanick Kalumbu Tshiwengu, a former child miner from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is lucky to be alive. When he was just 11 years old, Yanick went to Kolwezi to mine cobalt. Every day he descended several metres underground
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Understanding cobalt’s human cost - Northwestern Now
2021-12-17 · After studying the impacts of mining cobalt — a common ingredient in lithium-ion batteries — on communities in Africa’s Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Northwestern University is calling for more data into how emerging technologies affect human health and livelihoods.
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The toll of the cobalt mining industry on health and the ...
2018-3-6 · The toll of the cobalt mining industry on health and the environment. A CBS News investigation of child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo has revealed that tens of ...
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Understanding cobalt’s human cost: Social consequences
2021-12-17 · Dec. 12, 2018 — Cobalt deposits in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of Earth's largest cobalt-mining regions, are 150 million years younger than previously thought, according to a new study ...
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Cobalt Mining - Cobalt Institute
Cobalt Mining Cobalt is mined across the world and the vast majority is produced as a by-product from large scale copper and nickel mines. Cobalt is only extracted alone in Morocco and some Canadian arsenide ores. 98% of cobalt production is mined as a by-product Technologies include both underground and surface mining. Various nickel and []
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Sustainability of artisanal mining of cobalt in DR Congo
Cobalt is essential for numerous modern applications. 1, 2 More than 50% of the world’s current production of cobalt goes to rechargeable batteries for smartphones, laptop computers and electric vehicles. 3 Because cobalt is an essential element in lithium-ion batteries, the anticipated rising demand of electric vehicles has led to an increase in the market for cobalt and a surge in
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Cobalt mining in Africa - Mining Africa
2021-1-4 · Mining Cobalt in Africa. Most of the cobalt in the world is mined in Africa. It is mainly produced as a by-product of platinum and nickel mining operations. Most of the cobalt in the world is sourced from the African country the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). How Cobalt is Used. Cobalt is used in several military and industrial applications.
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Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2021-12-14 · Cobalt is extracted as a byproduct from copper and nickel mining. [4] Copper-cobalt oxide and sulfides go through several processes to ultimately end with pure cobalt or other cobalt compositions. [4] In the Congo, cobalt is found in various forms, each leading to a different refinement process.
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Cobalt and the Congo: A Sustainable Green Energy ...
2021-4-13 · Failing to improve cobalt mining conditions in the DR Congo is an injustice to the people in eastern DRC. A sustainable green energy revolution cannot be built on human exploitation. A predicted rise in electric-vehicle output is forecasted to require a gross annual cobalt production of 314,000 tons by 2030, which is roughly 224% more than ...
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Sustainability of artisanal mining of cobalt in DR Congo ...
2018-9-14 · Cobalt is used in rechargeable batteries, and half the world’s supply comes from one district in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This study
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Cobalt production DR Congo 2020 | Statista
2021-9-24 · Cobalt mine production in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2010-2020. In 2020, mine production of cobalt in the DR Congo totaled some 95,000 metric tons. In recent years, the global production of ...
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Why Cobalt Mining in the DRC Needs Urgent Attention
2020-10-29 · 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 ...
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Cobalt mining, China, and the fight for Congo's minerals
2018-2-4 · Cobalt mining, China, and the fight for Congo’s minerals. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is attempting to increase revenue from the 270% surge in cobalt prices in the last year by raising taxes on the metal
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Cobalt mining in the DRC: the dark side of a clean future
Yanick Kalumbu Tshiwengu, a former child miner from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is lucky to be alive. When he was just 11 years old, Yanick went to Kolwezi to mine cobalt. Every day he descended several metres underground
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China's Role in the Complex, Brutal History of Cobalt ...
2021-5-25 · The New Yorker magazine published a sweeping long-form article in its latest edition that delves into the painful history of Congolese cobalt — a metal that is now indispensable for any consumer who owns a mobile phone and a strategic resource that is in the middle of a burgeoning great power rivalry over who will control strategic supply chains in the 21st century.
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Our device-driven lives depend more than ever on tragedy ...
2021-12-18 · The batteries in these devices require cobalt, and approximately 70 percent of the global supply of cobalt is mined in Congo. When foreign
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The Effects of Cobalt Mining in the DRC - The Borgen Project
2021-11-6 · Human Rights Violations in DRC Mines. Cobalt mining in the DRC is rife with human rights abuses, such as the use of child labor. According to Amnesty International, an estimated 40,000 children are employed in artisanal mining in the DRC. A lack of proper safety precautions is also common practice and accidents frequently occur.
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