The misery in which so-called artisanal miners work, and their rising death toll, has thrust cobalt mining in the Congo into the international spotlight

China's top cobalt producer halts buying from Congo miners. Huayou Cobalt bows to pressure over use of child labour in DRC's informal mining sector . A man sorts through cobalt in the DRC ...

9/21/2018 · More information: Célestin Banza Lubaba Nkulu et al, Sustainability of artisanal mining of cobalt in DR Congo, Nature Sustainability (2018).DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0139-4

China's biggest cobalt refiner Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt said on Thursday its overseas unit is pulling out a deal to invest $66.3 million in a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...

Almost three-quarters of the world's cobalt comes from Congo, where Glencore owns two of the largest mines, and demand is forecast to surge in coming years, driven by electric-vehicle sales.

Changes that Congo made to mining laws in 2002 attracted new investments in Congolese copper and cobalt projects. Glencore's Mutanda Mine shipped 24,500 tons of cobalt in 2016, 40% of Congo DRC's output and nearly a quarter of global production. After oversupply, Glencore closed Mutanda for .

17.12.2019 · China's Cobalt Mining Giant in the DR Congo is in Trouble (Again) Human Rights; Mining; Resources; December 17, 2019. by Eric Olander. Share. A child breaks rocks extracted from a cobalt mining at a copper mine quarry and cobalt pit in Lubumbashi on May 23, 2016. The price of copper has fallen heavily, directly impacting workers in the town. JUNIOR KANNAH / AFP . The phone many of .

"There are cave-ins all the time on many of these sites," said one official at an industrial mine in Congo. "Wherever there is cobalt in the DRC, there will be artisanal miners."

2/27/2017 · It is an essential part of most mobile gadgets sold around the world and demand for cobalt is soaring. But the process of extracting the mineral from the ear...

Over half of cobalt supply comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country currently experiencing political turmoil. The key to understand is that the copper and nickel miners have no ...

Children mining cobalt for batteries in Congo... 05:56 A CBS News investigation has found child labor being used in the dangerous mining of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

La conférence Mining Indaba en Afrique du Sud se clôt sur un constat : la concentration de la production de cobalt entre la RDC et la Chine fait peser un risque sur l'approvisionnement mondial.

Depuis les mines congo­laises à petite échelle, il est ache­mi­né vers une seule com­pa­gnie chi­noise – la Congo Dong­Fang Inter­na­tio­nal Mining, appar­te­nant à l'un des plus gros pro­duc­teurs de cobalt dans le monde, Zhe­jiang Huayou Cobalt – qui four­nit depuis des années quelques uns des plus grands fabri­cants mon­diaux de bat­te­ries. Ceux-ci, à leur ...

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Project for responsible artisanal cobalt mining in Kolwezi, DR Congo: launching on-site activities. September 19, 2019 . With the pilot project "Cobalt for Development", the BMW Group, BASF SE, Samsung SDI and Samsung Electronics yesterday kicked off their cross-industrial initiative aimed at improving working conditions of the people working at an artisanal cobalt mine site in the ...

Congo-China-cobalt conundrum Annual cobalt production is only around 130,000 tonnes, mostly as a byproduct of nickel and copper mining. Some two-thirds of .

Almost three-quarters of the world's cobalt comes from Congo, where Glencore owns two of the largest mines, and demand is forecast to surge in coming years, driven by electric-vehicle sales.

12/16/2019 · DR Congo produces 60% of the world's supply of cobalt. The mineral is used to produce lithium-ion batteries used to power electric cars, laptops and smartphones.

8/13/2019 · Miners searching for cobalt in the Kamato Mine, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Credit: Katanga Mining) Over the past decade, China has established a monopoly over cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the vast majority of the metal resides. Felix Todd reports.