Democratic Republic of Congo has suspended artisanal copper and cobalt mineral processing, according to a decree seen by ...

Author Siddharth Kara is sounding the alarm on a growing human rights issue in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DCR) after he witnessed workers, including children, laboring ...

Discover the latest cobalt market trends, global supply risks, and key investments shaping critical minerals security. Read ...

Democratic Republic of Congo is enforcing a state monopoly on hand-dug cobalt production through Entreprise Generale du Cobalt (EGC), the only entity allowed to export artisanal cobalt. The government ...

The ban was initially designed to stabilise the market and stem falling prices due to global oversupply, according to the ...

Hidden inside your smartphone, your laptop, your electric car is the metal cobalt, an ingredient crucial for a rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and other renewable energy sources. Much of the ...

During one of his many visits to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Siddharth Kara, an author and Harvard academic who has spent 20 years researching modern slavery, met a young woman sifting dirt ...

September 9, 2022: China continues to expand and entrench its mining operations in Congo. Much of this activity is in southeastern Congo (Lualaba province). There the only competition China has is a ...

Along the 63-mile highway between the towns of Kolwezi and Fungurume sit two towering symbols of China’s stranglehold over resources in the southeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo: huge ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Blockchain is to be used for the first time to try to track cobalt's journey from artisanal mines in Democratic Republic of Congo through to products used in smartphones and ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has authorised exports of copper and cobalt concentrate for mining companies that hold waivers, customs documents showed, after the country appeared to issue a blanket ban ...

State cobalt buyer to set price floor of $30,000 a tonne EGC aims for Kasulo site to produce 20,000 tonnes in 2023 Sourcing from the site to begin by mid-September, EGC says July 15 (Reuters) - The ...