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The Democratic Republic of Congo supplies some 60 percent of
the world’s cobalt—a desperately sought after metal that is the
driver of our electric vehicle (EV) boom and the fodder of battery
gigafactories popping up all over the world. But this claim to fame
is obscured by a much darker side of the DRC – namely that It’s in
the middle of a violent uprising and it’s been using inhumane child
labor to mine the precious metal. DRC’s cobalt is the ‘blood
diamonds’ of this decade. Buyers are under growing…
the world’s cobalt—a desperately sought after metal that is the
driver of our electric vehicle (EV) boom and the fodder of battery
gigafactories popping up all over the world. But this claim to fame
is obscured by a much darker side of the DRC – namely that It’s in
the middle of a violent uprising and it’s been using inhumane child
labor to mine the precious metal. DRC’s cobalt is the ‘blood
diamonds’ of this decade. Buyers are under growing…
The Democratic Republic of Congo supplies some 60 percent of
the world’s cobalt—a desperately sought after metal that is the
driver of our electric vehicle (EV) boom and the fodder of battery
gigafactories popping up all over the world. But this claim to fame
is obscured by a much darker side of the DRC – namely that It’s in
the middle of a violent uprising and it’s been using inhumane child
labor to mine the precious metal. DRC’s cobalt is the ‘blood
diamonds’ of this decade. Buyers are under growing…
the world’s cobalt—a desperately sought after metal that is the
driver of our electric vehicle (EV) boom and the fodder of battery
gigafactories popping up all over the world. But this claim to fame
is obscured by a much darker side of the DRC – namely that It’s in
the middle of a violent uprising and it’s been using inhumane child
labor to mine the precious metal. DRC’s cobalt is the ‘blood
diamonds’ of this decade. Buyers are under growing…