Tag Archives: Minerals
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Cobalt: the dark side of a clean future
An estimated 35,000 children work in perilous conditions to extract cobalt from the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo. So what will the impact be on these exploited workers from rapid advances in electric cars, which are heavily reliant on this conflict mineral?
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Stakes are high mining for tech minerals
Not all miners are betting on cobalt and lithium as winners in the technological age – others favour copper, nickel, zinc and palladium
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Descending into conflict: tech minerals finance war
The technology we now take for granted relies on minerals which may have been mined in conflict zones where the trade finances war and oppression