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The Mutanda Mine (French: Mine de Mutanda) is an open-pit copper and cobalt mine in the Lualaba Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is the largest cobalt mine in the world. Accidents and spills at the mine have killed workers and polluted nearby rivers and fields.
Mutanda — the world's largest cobalt mine — was pegged to transition to care and maintenance (temporary closure) by year-end 2019, the world's largest and responsible for 20% global output. Artisanal mining of copper and cobalt, usually by hand, is also widespread.
Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a ...
The mine has 200,000 million tonne ore body with a seven (7) million tonnes of copper at a high-grade rate of eight (8) percent [93] and large quantities of cobalt. [94] Lubambe copper mine was originally a joint venture between African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and Vale [91] until EMR Capital acquired controlling interest in 2017. [92]
A desperate search for survival – women and children as young as nine years old spend hours each day digging at a cobalt mine in Kolwezi City in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This is a list of mining areas in Colombia. [1] The mineral industry of Colombia is large and diverse; the country occupies the first place in mining areas per surface area in the world. In pre-Columbian times, mining of gold, silver, copper, emeralds, salt, coal and other minerals was already widespread.
A new cobalt mine near Salmon has raised the stature of Idaho’s extraction economy, and brought back memories of environmental damage.
The following list of mines in Serbia is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in Serbia and is organised by the primary mineral output(s) and province. For a history of mining in the region now known as Serbia, see Vujic 2014.