The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda have reached an outline economic cooperation accord during their first ...

Taking back control There are about 150,000-200,000 artisanal miners currently working cobalt deposits in Congo with more than a million others directly economically dependent on their activity.

Annual cobalt production is only around 130,000 tonnes, mostly as a byproduct of nickel and copper mining. Some two-thirds of supply comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The ban's implementation followed a significant drop in cobalt prices due to increased production, particularly from two ...

Glencore, the world's second-largest cobalt producing company, mined 35 100 metric tons of cobalt contained in concentrate and hydroxide at its Congo operations last year. Many of its customers ...

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. A CRITICAL DEPENDENCE The Western response to its cobalt dilemma has been either to try to not use it at all or to avoid any ...

The misery in which so-called artisanal miners work, and their rising death toll, has thrust cobalt mining in the Congo into the international spotlight ...

TWO major developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been largely obscured as global attention focuses on conflict in the Middle East, said Bloomberg News on Tuesday. On Saturday, ...

EGC’s international ambition is to position Congo “as the main cobalt trading country in the world and not just as a producer.” Yearly artisanal output has ranged from 15,000 to 30,000 tonnes ...

The problems around artisanal cobalt mining in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will take "a coalition to solve", according to Microsoft . The $1.9 trillion U.S. tech giant was recently in the ...