The human cost of mining in the Congo, which accounts for more than 60% of global cobalt production, is one of the reasons companies such
(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) * Global mined cobalt production: tmsnrt.rs/2v5wkuB. * Cobalt
The problems associated with artisanal cobalt mining in the Congo are generating an aggressive industry response with consumers trying to
First Cobalt owns North America's only permitted cobalt refinery.
The Castle Mine was the highest-grade silver mine (with cobalt as a by-product) operated by Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (TSX:AEM) in the
About 70% of today's mined cobalt-almost exclusively as a byproduct commodity, obtained mostly from copper and nickel mines-comes from
Mining giant Glencore's (LSE:GLEN,OTC Pink:GLCNF) total cobalt production reached 46,300 metric tons in 2019 - 10 percent higher
Since 2016, Amnesty International has denounced cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo for human rights violations and the use
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The Central African nation is planning to create a new state-owned corporation to buy cobalt mined from all "artisanal" operations. What is
The Democratic Republic of Congo's new company set up to buy all the country's hand-mined cobalt will probably start operating by June, said
The Democratic Republic of Congo created a state monopoly for hand-mined cobalt as the government tries to exert more market control on the
While this product has been available to the global cobalt mining industry (which largely constitutes operations in the Democratic Republic of
Cobalt, with the exception of silver-cobalt ores from the Cobalt Mining Camp in northeast Ontario, is produced primarily as a by-product of
The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a state-owned company to buy all the cobalt mined by hand in the country, in an effort to support
The entity is called Enterprise Generale du Cobalt, according to a source
First Cobalt owns North America's only permitted cobalt refinery.
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