DRC to improve safety of artisinal cobalt mining
RCS Global and the Responsible Minerals Initiative are partners in the initiative, which involves giving ‘corrective action’ plans to unsafe mines
21 April 2020 - 13:23
A programme to monitor and improve artisanal cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will double the number of mining sites it covers this year through a partnership between RCS Global and the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI).
RCS Global, a company in Berlin that audits supply chains, started the “better mining” programme in 2018, collecting data on cobalt mine sites in the DRC and giving mine operators “corrective action” plans when mining practices were found to be unsafe...
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