Recycling critical materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel are driving profits and shoring up China's resource security ...

Electric cars, solar panels and rare earth mining—the hypocrisy of a ‘clean’ transition built on child labor and carbon-heavy extraction As the world r ...

California-based metals exploration company KoBold Metals said on Wednesday that it had agreed on a framework to buy AVZ Minerals' interests in the Manono lithium deposit in the Democratic Republic of ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft ... in a region rich in minerals including tantalum, gold, cobalt, copper and lithium. The two countries' foreign ministers agreed ...

More than half of the world’s supply of cobalt originates in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Other major cobalt producers include Russia, Canada, Australia, the Philippines and Cuba.

Congo is the world’s largest producer of cobalt, a mineral used to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and smartphones. The country also has substantial gold, diamond and copper ...

The US is actively pushing for a peace accord between Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ... DRC is currently the world’s largest cobalt producer and the leading copper producer in Africa.