What is the human cost of mining cobalt in DRC?
Nickel-manganese-cobalt chemistry remains the bedrock of car batteries, and that means being stuck with DRC's artisanal miners
13 July 2019 - 06:30
London — Cobalt is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
The death last month of 43 artisan miners at the Kamoto Copper Company KOV concession in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has refocused attention on the human cost of producing what is a key input into electric vehicle (EV) batteries...
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