Miners there were using picks, shovels and bare hands to unearth rocks rich with the metal. Water sometimes rushes into holes and drowns miners.

COBALT – 72% of the cobalt for rechargeable batteries comes from the Congo.

Mining for rare minerals will destroy more environments and lives than it saves.

Your virtue seeking will not save them!

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There are more than 255,000 creuseurs mining cobalt in DRC, at least 35,000 of whom are children.

The lawsuit details that children, some as young as 6 years old, were forced by their families’ extreme poverty to leave school and work in cobalt mines.