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Your Phone Runs On Cobalt From DR Congo -U.S. Department of Labor estimating that 40,000 children work in mines

February 4, 2023 Mariel Alumit

The chances of your phone’s battery being made using cobalt from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are, as Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes in this chart using data cited in Statista’s DossierPlus ‘Mining Industry […]

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How abandoned mines can become clean energy storage systems

January 17, 2023 Mariel Alumit

​An international team of researchers has developed a novel way to store energy by transporting sand into abandoned underground mines. The new technique, called Underground Gravity Energy Storage (UGES), proposes an effective long-term energy storage […]

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Photos: DR Congo’s faltering fight against illegal cobalt mines

November 4, 2022 Mariel Alumit

At the bottom of a crater in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 5,000 diggers pack tightly together, swinging hammers and picks to prise chunks of speckled blue-gold ore from the earth. In this scene […]

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