A recent investigation by Global Witness has highlighted how conflict minerals sourced in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Conflict minerals from war-torn DRC likely end up in everyday tech from Sony, Microsoft, Amazon, LG, Vodafone, and others, a ...

RUBAYA, Congo — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, as hundreds of men labor by hand to extract coltan, a key ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alain Libondo (17) left, and Nsinku Zihindula (25), hammering at solid rock to find cassiterite and coltan at Szibira, South Kivu.

Coltan mined by armed rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is being smuggled out through Rwanda and fed into global supply chains, an NGO investigation said Wednesday. Looted DR Congo coltan ...

The northeastern part of the country contains gold, coal and iron-ore deposits, and coltan – a term derived from the word ‘columbite-tantalite’ that belongs to a group of geochemical products ...

There's been yet another mining tragedy in the Congo in the peasant and artisanal mines of the east: At least 20 people were killed when a mine collapsed in mineral-rich but conflict-plagued eastern ...

RUBAYA, Congo — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, as hundreds of men labor by hand to extract coltan, a key ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan quarry in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses ...