DRC influence over the cobalt industry

For instance, China's cobalt industry sources some cobalt from artisanal miners and in 2021, the DRC's national government cancelled contracts from artisanal sites even though …

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The DRC Mining Industry: Child Labor and …

More than half of the world's cobalt resources are located in the DRC, and over 70% of the world's cobalt mining occurs there. Artisanal miners produce 20% of the country's cobalt output. The remainder comes from …

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China's mining industry

Monthly iron ore mining in China from March 2022 to March 2025 (in million metric tons) ... Investment volume in geological exploration in non-oil and gas resources China as of …

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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining

Mining More than 13 million people in the South are directly engaged in small-scale mining – many of whom are women and children – with another 80 to 100 ... fact remains that small …

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Mineral exhaustion and its livelihood implications for artisanal and

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a vital livelihood practice and one of the main non-farm rural activities in the Global South (Hilson, 2016; Maconachie and Conteh, …

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Challenges with formalizing artisanal and small-scale mining …

The questions that have come to dominate recent public discussions and policy dialogue on Chinese participation in Africa are largely focused on state-level economic …

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Artisanal mining: the struggle to clean up a …

While artisanal mining extends far beyond the DRC, supporting the livelihoods of almost 1 in 20 people on the planet, and includes commodities such as copper, gold, tin and lithium, it was in 2016 ...

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Illegal Artisanal Gold Mines Are Sparking Conflict …

The rise in artisanal mining has come at a time when the metal's value is skyrocketing. Gold prices have increased sixfold since the end of the year 2000, reaching almost $2,900 per ounce in ...

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Artisanal miners: A hidden but critical force in the …

About 90% of the world's mining workforce is artisanal miners. In addition to the 45 million workers who make their living engaging directly in artisanal mining, the ASM sector indirectly supports an estimated additional …

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Socio-economic and environmental implications of Artisanal and …

Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) continues to grow in many resource-rich rural communities. Recent estimates underscore this growth: 40.5 million people were directly …

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Artisanal Mining in the People's Republic of China

Artisanal Mining Resource People 18 Acknowledgements 19 Bibliography 19 ... Most artisanal mining in China today can be categorized as Township and Village Enterprises (TVE). As …

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Mining-sector dynamics in an era of resurgent resource …

The article thus draws on recent work on changes in artisanal mining coming out of research on the Africa-China Informal Resource Trade (ACIRT) (see Schoneveld et al., 2018) …

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Artisanal Mining in The People's Republic of China

This report, which was authored in 2001, provides a contextual background for ASM in China, touching on the country's legal stance on the industry, its technical and socio-economic …

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Assessing impacts of responsible sourcing initiatives for …

While this study observes that child labour occurs predominantly in ASM, it is also acknowledges that "disengaging from artisanal mining (reducing demand) can have …

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The role of artisanal and small-scale mining in …

Wright T. Small mines in the Chinese coal industry, Working paper no. 80 of National Library of Australia; June 1998. [3] Gunson AJ, Yue J. Artisanal mining in the People's Republic of China, Report for MMSD; 2001. [4] Shen Lei, …

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The precarious political economy of cobalt: Balancing …

A mining boom has thus been underway for critical metals needed to manufacture such technologies. Al Barazi et al. (2017) note that already, global cobalt demand jumped from …

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Artisanal Mining

The role of local communities and artisanal miners is evolving into an essential part of resource management. Artisanal or small-scale mining (ASM) is often viewed as a subset or side effect …

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A Review of the Scope of Artisanal and …

Equipped with primitive tools like picks, shovels, buckets, and gold pans, they work mining valuable resources, like gold, diamonds, tin, lithium, rare earth elements, tantalum, and cobalt, and any other usable commodity, for …

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'We miners die a lot.' Appalling conditions and …

Although it is well known that artisanal mining is now a vital rural livelihood in developing countries around the world, with World Bank estimates suggesting that there may now be as many as 100 ...

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Mercury and Artisanal Mining in China | Environmental …

Artisanal mining employs about 6 million people in China, who often work in deadly conditions, and contributes to environmental degradation on a huge scale. Chinese artisanal mercury, …

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Congo to enforce artisanal cobalt monopoly after …

Specialist trading house Darton Commodities estimates that the weak market saw artisanal mining volumes drop to 4,400 tons to 5,000 tons in 2024 – or as little as 2% of the country's total output.

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The role of artisanal and small-scale mining in China's …

In China, ASM contributes significantly to the supply and full utilization of resources; market competition in the resource sector; reducing transportation bottlenecks; and rural socio …

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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activity plays an important role in the economy of developing countries, directly and indirectly supporting an estimated 100 million …

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China in Congo

I spoke to Maurice Carney about the role of China in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's mining industry. Several weeks ago here I reviewed Siddharth Kara's book "Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo …

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The 'natural resource curse' and artisanal mines: the case …

Virtually all of these people worked in artisanal mines (industrial mines employed around 6,000 people in 2014). Paradoxically, studies quantitatively measuring the effects of …

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The role of artisanal and small-scale mining in China's …

Through a review of the available literature and statistics, this paper works toward building a balanced picture of the overall role of ASM in China. First, the positive and negative …

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United Nations Industrial Development Organization

The artisanal mining sector in Suriname seems to be out of ... This would be very beneficial for the people in the interior if carried out in an organized fashion. But the Brazilian "invasion" is …

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Artisanal Small-Scale Mining for sustainable livelihood in …

Mining remains a major economic activity, especially in resource endowed areas. The mining process passed over significant shifts in the global investment flows (Bridge, 2004) …

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The Role Of Artisanal And Small-Scale Mining In China's

The last decades have seen increased international attention paid to a number of features of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). The beneficial roles of ASM in society and the …

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'Cobalt Red' describes the 'horror show' of mining …

Some 20,000 people work at Shabara artisanal mine in the DRC, in shifts of 5,000 at a time. ... In some cases, predominantly artisanal mining is taking place. And the reason is, it's a penny-wage ...

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