Key findings 1. ASM production constitutes 15–30% of total cobalt production in the DRC.3 Human rights risks, including child labour, are greatly elevated in ASM operations. Yet ASM is often the sole form of livelihood for those in destitute local communities. Any
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These human rights risks are particularly high in artisanal mines in the DRC, a country weakened by violent ethnic conflict, Ebola, and high levels of corruption. Child labor, fatal accidents, and violent clashes between artisanal miners and security personnel of large mining firms are recurrent. ASM cannot simply be shut down, however.
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· The world’s largest cobalt supplier is the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where it is estimated that up to a fifth of the production is produced through artisanal miners. Cobalt mining, however, is associated with dangerous workers’ exploitation and other serious environmental and social issues .
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:Democratic Republic of The CongoCongo and CobaltCobalt Mining in The Drcminers who extract the cobalt with basic tools got access to a mechanically prepared mine site with open pits where site-safety standards were implemented, among other
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· KCC is the largest cobalt-producing mine in the world. Located in the heart of the DRC’s Katangan Copperbelt, each year, the mine churns out over 20,000 tons of the silvery metal used in cell
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· Cobalt prices have plunged 65 per cent from $40 per pound in just over a year to $14 per pound, a crash that Lukama said had been “very painful” for the DRC. Analysts expect a glut for at
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· More than half of the world’s cobalt mine production comes from the Katanga Copperbelt in DR Congo, with a substantial proportion (estimated at 15–20%) being extracted by artisanal miners.
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· Photos: Satellite images taken from 2017-2022 show the expanding mine near Kolwezi, DRC. Credit: Planet Labs PBC This mining boom has also led many to turn to the industry for work.
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These statistics included that the DRC is the source of approximately 60% of global cobalt supply, that the cobalt market is expected to grow to be worth $100 billion by the year 2025, and that an estimated 40,000 children work in cobalt mines in the DRC, everyday. Christian ended his opening remarks with the question of the evening: “What
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· A view of the open pit mine in downtown Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct. 13, 2022. Once a thriving neighborhood of neat houses and tree-shaded avenues, this district of the city of
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ique experiment in “artisanal” mining for cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A shutdown designed to limit the spread of the lethal virus trun. ated a promising pilot project at a site called Mutoshi in Lualaba province in the south of the DRC. At Mutoshi, artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) had been “formalized” in
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February 16, 2023 – Cobalt mining is taking a huge toll on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.), according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Siddharth Kara. A new book by Kara, a visiting scientist at Harvard Chan School and an author, researcher, screenwriter, and activist on modern
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:Democratic Republic of The CongoMining Cobalt in The Congo · Satellite imagery provided by Planet Labs shows the dramatic growth of copper and cobalt mines in and around the city of Kolwezi, in the Democratic Republic
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By Roy Maconachie. February 1, 2024. 3. Demand for cobalt is skyrocketing. The DRC sits on two thirds of the world’s known supply, yet miners receive virtually none of the profits. Labourers load sacks of cobalt onto bicycles at Mutoshi mine, DRC, in July 2021. Credit: Roy Maconachie. It was a cool, dusty morning in July 2021 when I first
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Democratic Republic of the Congo: Industrial mining of cobalt and copper for rechargeable batteries is leading to grievous human rights abuses. The expansion of industrial-scale cobalt and copper mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has led to the forced eviction of entire communities and grievous human rights abuses including
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:Democratic Republic of The CongoCongo and CobaltCobalt Mining in The Drc · Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."
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:Democratic Republic of The CongoCongo and CobaltMining Cobalt in The Congo · Situated just outside Kapata on the south-west outskirts of Kolwezi, a mining town that has historically served as an important centre for copper and cobalt,
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· The expansion of cobalt and copper mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is “wrecking lives”, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Tuesday. Residents have been forcibly evicted from their homes and subjected to human rights abuses such as sexual assault, arson and beatings. Amnesty International
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· More than 70 percent of the world’s cobalt is produced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and 15 to 30 percent of the Congolese cobalt is produced by artisanal and small-scale
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:Congo and CobaltCobalt Mining in The DrcMining Cobalt in The Congo · The expansion of industrial-scale mines that extract cobalt and copper for rechargeable batteries has led to forced evictions and human rights abuses, including
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: ABC News In-depth · Item 1 of 2 Artisanal miners work at a cobalt mine-pit in Tulwizembe, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo, November 25, 2015. It's a key ingredient in the chemistry that powers electric
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· The price of cobalt–around $40 a pound in early 2022–started to drop. The price fell from $40 a pound to $35. It was at $25 a pound by the time everyone was gathered in the mountains of Idaho
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:Democratic Republic of The CongoCongo and CobaltCobalt Mining in The Drc · DRC cobalt mining grew at a compound annual rate of 20% from 1995 through 2020. •. Major disruptions were due to rail damage, nationalization, and
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· The DRC has the world’s largest reserves of cobalt and the seventh largest reserves of copper, Amnesty International said in its report. Demand for cobalt is expected to reach 222,000 tonnes by
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· Cobalt is a required metal within the battery technology driving the transition to ‘greener’ electric vehicles. It also provides an income to 150,000-200,000 artisanal miners and their dependents in impoverished areas of the DRC. However, cobalt mining – both industrial and artisanal – has significant environmental impacts ranging
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· More than 70% of the global production of cobalt takes place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), of which 15–30% comes from so-called artisanal and small-scale mines. This white paper assesses recent approaches to formalizing artisanal and small-scale mining of cobalt. The learnings from the cobalt context in the
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June 6, 2023. Whether you know it or not, much of your life is powered by Congolese cobalt—and by the people who mine it. There’s a little piece of cobalt in nearly every smartphone, tablet, and laptop. That makes cobalt indispensable to global tech and manufacturing companies. But cobalt extraction is a major driver of human rights abuses.
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ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 23, 2020 – The Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), as the Partnership Lead of the Cobalt Action Partnership (CAP), today with CAP Implementing Partners announced that His Excellency Professor Willy Kitobo Samsoni, National Minister of Mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is joining the CAP Steering
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:CobaltRoy Maconachie · From the rubber farms of King Leopold’s brutal Congo Free State in the 1890s to the palm oil plantations and uranium mines of the twentieth century, cobalt mining is just the latest chapter in a
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· About three-quarters of the world’s cobalt supply comes from the DRC. The Kolwezi mine has an annual production capacity of 120,000 tonnes of copper and 3,000 tonnes of cobalt.
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