China’s CMOC Group produced more cobalt at its two mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the first half of this year, despite the African nation’s ban on exports. The world’s largest ...

CMOC increased cobalt production by 13% to 61,073 tonnes in the first half of 2025. • The DRC extended its cobalt export ban, forcing CMOC to stockpile while adapting. • CMOC maintains its 2025 cobalt ...

A new documentary looked at ways to reduce the human and environmental harms stemming from the mining of "critical minerals." ...

The trading unit of CMOC Group — the world’s biggest producer of cobalt — has declared force majeure on deliveries of the ...

Cobalt used in batteries for phones, laptops and electric vehicles could come from mines in Democratic Republic of Congo that use child labour, an Amnesty International report said on Tuesday.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the world’s largest cobalt producer, has extended its export ban on cobalt by another ...

US-China Metals Fight Finds New Home in Congo's Cobalt Mines. In the middle of a trade war, Congo is trying to woo Trump’s White House without risking critical investment from Beijing.

Some three quarters of the word’s supply of cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where children as young as 10 years old help extract the metal from hand dug shafts in the ...

Most of that cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is mined by what are euphemistically called artisanal miners —desperate young men, women, and children who have no ...

Entreprise Generale du Cobalt, or EGC, is now the only entity allowed to export so-called artisanal cobalt, according to new regulations signed by the prime minister and mines minister on Feb. 21.

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A copper and cobalt mine run by Sicomines is seen in Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 30, 2015. Picture taken May 30, 2015.