The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is rich in natural resources – its untapped deposits of minerals are estimated to be worth US trillion. Gold, diamonds, cobalt and zinc are among them. Another ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the earth of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a war is currently ...

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Coltan, columbo-tantalite, is a mineral used to make resistors in our cellphones, video games, computers and home electronics. Likened to blood diamonds, its mining has not only caused ecological ...

On a narrow trail muddied by rain, a slight man in a thin T-shirt emerges from the thick of a remote jungle, down where Colombia ends and Venezuela and Brazil begin. He’s striding quickly, despite ...

, REUTERS -Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighboring Congo, helping fund an insurgency in that vast African country, according to a ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the M23 rebel group recently captured Rubaya, a small town at the heart of mining coltan, a coveted mineral used in manufacturing mobile phones and laptops. DR ...

The northeastern part of the country contains gold, coal and iron-ore deposits, and coltan – a term derived from the word ‘columbite-tantalite’ that belongs to a group of geochemical products ...