Shocking truths behind smartphone and EV batteries: children mining cobalt

a 250-mile crescent from Kolwezi to northern Zambia—is the source of 10 percent of the world's copper as well as about half of the world's cobalt reserves. Cobalt—deemed "critical" by the European Union and "strategic" by the United States—is essential for all of today's rechargeable batteries,…

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