The pressure to produce cobalt is tremendous ... detailing deaths and injuries among the countless children working in small-scale, hand-dug mines, often in manually carved tunnels that frequently ...

Cobalt is a vital component in the batteries ... Their GALAB project aims to rescue children from the mines and give them a chance at education. So far, over 6,200 children have been identified ...

The researchers interviewed 17 children at five mines where they said children as young as seven scavenged for rocks containing cobalt. The researchers said they saw workers from the mines queuing ...

Of the total cobalt mined in the DRC, about 15% to 30% is produced by unregulated artisanal small-scale mining, the source of reported human rights violations, where children are put to work and ...

Demonstrators gathered in Fremont on Saturday to protest billionaire Elon Musk's involvement in government and Tesla's ...

Mining of these rock-like nodules was the topic of discussion of experts and industry representatives gathered in Tempe on April 25.

The country is considering extending a restriction on cobalt exports to further push up prices. It’s not the only mineral-rich country to try that. Tariffs aren’t the only thing restricting ...

Of the total cobalt mined in the DRC, about 15% to 30% is produced by unregulated artisanal small-scale mining, the source of reported human rights violations, where children are put to work and ...

Tariffs aren’t the only thing restricting global free trade right now: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, which mines a whole lot of cobalt, has banned the export of that metal since February ...