China is reaping the rewards of its massive investment in the DRC in the form of surging imports of physical copper.

Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents shot dead three boys who had picked up guns left by Congolese soldiers fleeing the rebel advance ...

Writing about the minerals beneath Africa's soil often feels like unpacking a suitcase of clichés. We've all read the tired ...

China's copper imports from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have surged, with shipments of refined copper jumping by ...

The burning of lithium-ion batteries releases a variety of toxic substances into the air, including heavy metals and other ...

Producing batteries for electric cars requires a complex and globally networked supply chain. In a recent study, researchers ...

A team of researchers from Fraunhofer FFB and the German University of Münster has analysed the ownership structures and geopolitical dependencies along the ...

Like copper and uranium before it, cobalt mining has been linked to widescale exploitation ... Concessionary companies made enormous profits in the Congo Free State between 1885 and 1908. The entire ...

Recycling lithium-ion batteries to recover their critical metals has significantly lower environmental impacts than mining virgin metals, according to a ...

Sanctions have led to increasing oil leaks, deforestation, and destruction of natural environments due to the necessity to ...