Status Updates From Cobalt Red: How the Blood o...

I still have 59 pages to go, but my lord...this is one of the most devastating books I have ever read. The extraction of raw materials like cobalt is the price paid to make the electronics that power our advanced economies and provide us with the highest standard of living ever experienced in history. However, we don't pay that price, but rather the millions of Congolese and others who suffer and die for every gram.

“There is no known deposit of cobalt-containing ore anywhere in the world that is larger, more accessible, and higher grade than the cobalt under Kolwezi.

Cobalt is typically found in nature bound to copper, and the copper-cobalt deposits in the Congo stretch in varying degrees of density and grade along a four-hundred-kilometer crescent from Kolwezi to northern Zambia...”