In the Democratic Republic of Congo, large numbers of people work in dangerous, unregulated mines, digging for cobalt – a mineral used in the batteries found in phones, laptops, and electric vehicles.

PhotosA University of Michigan study of a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo finds that the necessary process of ...

Currently, China refines 68% of the world’s nickel, 40% of copper, 59% of lithium, and 73% of cobalt, and is continuing to expand its mining operations. Cobalt is a critical mineral with a wide ...

A new study of a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo finds that the necessary process of decarbonization is repeating and recreating colonial inequalities.

Talks over mining company Chemaf in Congo are part of a push by the Biden administration to secure global supplies of a metal ...

On Sept. 26, the Carleton University Human Rights Society called on the university to divest from companies sourcing cobalt.

Chemaf’s Mutoshi project is set to become one of the world’s largest mines for cobalt, which is extracted alongside copper and used in electric vehicle batteries. If Gecamines were to acquire ...

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The Biden administration has held talks with three firms in recent weeks about purchasing one of the world’s largest non-Chinese cobalt producers ... over Chemaf, a mining company based in ...