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LONDON (Reuters) – Blockchain is to be used for the first time to try to track cobalt’s journey from artisanal mines in Democratic Republic of Congo through to products used in smartphones and ...

In recent years, more people around the world have begun to encounter images of Congo’s suffering on their phones: a child emerging from a cobalt mine, a collapsed tunnel, families fleeing violence.

Along the 63-mile highway between the towns of Kolwezi and Fungurume sit two towering symbols of China’s stranglehold over resources in the southeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo: huge ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has suspended artisanal copper and cobalt mineral processing, according to a decree seen by ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo will allow cobalt shipments under quotas set for the last three months of 2025 to take place until the end of March, the country's mining regulator said, as ...

JOHANNESBURG, April 8 (Reuters) - CMOC Group (603993.SS), opens new tab boosted cobalt production at its mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the first three months of this year even after ...

JOHANNESBURG/ LONDON (Reuters) -China's CMOC Group, the world's top cobalt mining company, called on Democratic Republic of Congo last week to lift a ban on exports of the battery metal, which is ...