2023-07-15 02:26:45
Hardly any battery can do without cobalt. The metal is mined in the Congo. Our reporter visited mines and shows why Chinese and Swiss companies are doing well.
Women wash cobalt rock in Kamilombe: More than 70 percent of the production comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A high percentage from small artisanal mines.
Photo: Emmet Livingstone (AFP)
Published today at 04:26
Pepe takes off his mask to protect himself from the dust and tells his story. He is a creseur, someone who prospects for cobalt in a mine near the Congolese mining town of Kolwezi.
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