, REUTERS -Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighboring Congo, helping fund an insurgency in that vast African country, according to a ...

The Trump administration wants to encourage private equity to invest in critical mineral projects in Venezuela with offtakes ...

RUBAYA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Under the watchful eye of M23 rebels in the hills around the Congolese town of Rubaya, a line of men in rubber boots ferry sacks full of crushed rocks ...

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 ...

This Coltan (Columbite-tantalite) mines in a forgotten corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo fuel our 21st century lifestyle. The black tar-like mineral they are trying to harvest is the magical ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) -A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has killed at least 12 people, a mining source and a civil society source said on Friday.

M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control which is vital to the production of the world's mobile phones - and over its ...

Aug 14 (Reuters) - This is an excerpt of the Sustainable Switch newsletter, where we make sense of companies and governments grappling with climate change, diversity, and human rights on Tuesdays, ...

ANSWER: When PlayStation 2 came out in March 2000, there were news items about coltan being in high demand. Coltan is a metallic ore, a mix of the words columbite and tantalite. Two elements are ...

This touching pictures of miners scraping through for precious mineral with their bare hands would put you to tears. Horrific pictures of miners who risk their lives to extract rare minerals that ...