Papua New Guinea has made the list of top cobalt producers by country for the sixth year in a row. In 2023, the small country off the coast of Australia produced 2,900 MT of cobalt as a by-product of ...

Cobalt mining in the DRC is marred by human rights ... in both the past and present for human rights concerns. In the DRC, children as young as seven are sometimes employed to work in hazardous ...

Abuses include being forced to work in lithium refining facilities with threat of no or minimal pay to five-year-old children ...

"Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Bolivia are mining critical minerals like cobalt, ...

An estimated 40,000 children labour in the DRC’s artisanal cobalt mines under dangerous circumstances. Our research shows that the shift to clean energy technologies is not simply a matter of ...

Artisanal and small-scale mining plays a critical role in supplying the world with minerals vital for decarbonization, but ...

Today, DRC cobalt is shipped to China, which accounts for 65% of all global cobalt processing into cathodes for lithium-ion ...

African countries must avoid the mistakes of the fossil-fuel industrial revolution; the mining of cobalt, lithium, manganese, ...

Through its “debt trap diplomacy,” China became the major shareholder controlling most of African natural resources, ...

Analysis - The mineral-rich Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is often portrayed as a victim of exploitation by China, the US and Europe in their competition for its minerals, which are critical ...

An estimated 40,000 children labour in the DRC's artisanal cobalt mines under dangerous circumstances. Local realities matter Our research shows that the shift to clean energy technologies is not ...