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Apple faces investigation over use of conflict minerals in DR Congo
Technology giant Apple Inc. is under investigation for allegedly using minerals sourced from conflict-hit zones in the ...
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To compete with China and secure supply chains, the U.S. needs Africa’s minerals
The United States manufacturing renaissance is at risk of failure without Africa. As demand for critical minerals surges, African ...
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What role do minerals and tech firms play in the DRC conflict?
The conflict between Rwanda-backed forces and the Democratic Republic of Congo is often presented as a struggle to control ...
Informal mining in South Africa is here to stay. Police brutality won’t end it – here’s what will
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
Mining Weekly2d
Mining in Africa: On the cusp of a new boom?
By: Mukwandi Chibesakunda If there is one industry that can catalyse a fulsome transformation of African nations’ economies, it is mining. This has been said before, and applied too, in the context of ...
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DRC takes on Apple: can conflict mineral mining be stopped?
The American company claims it no longer sources conflict minerals from Central Africa, but is it doing enough? The complaints filed against Apple have been described by lawyers involved as a ...
Rituals, rites and rumours: how women claim power in Zimbabwe’s informal gold mines
In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held ...