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The quotas will be enforced in two parts, one focusing on exports and the other on local mineral transformation.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), for instance, the mining industry is the largest export economy. In theory, deposits of key minerals like copper, cobalt, tantalum, tin and gold should ...

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The majority of DRC Congo's cobalt mines are controlled by China. (Arlette Bashizi/For The Washington Post via Getty Images.) The poor conditions in the mines result in unsafe scenarios for many ...

American mining giant Freeport-McMoRan sold ... DR Congo, or the DRC, is by far the world's biggest source of cobalt - a mineral needed for making the batteries used in phones and electric ...

In addition, the DRC regulator has introduced stricter regulations for the domestic cobalt industry, prohibiting the mixing of cobalt from artisanal sources with that from industrial mining.