You may find it interesting, as it has been one of the first people to voice in public the realities of this trade. Backdraft Podcasts. Developed by Vico Rock Media. New Security Beat. Subscribe: rss mail-to. Other African conflicts have been sustained by diamonds and gold, but in the eastern DRC, columbo-tantalite coltan , is one of the most coveted commodities.
Coltan is refined into tantalum powder to make heat-resistant capacitors in cell phones, laptops, and other high-end electronics. Now silent under the Taliban, a Kabul cinema awaits its fate.
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The number is down from an estimated 8, a few years ago. Coltan is used to make pinhead capacitators, which regulate voltage and store energy in mobile phones. The environmental damage as a result of coltan mining is alarming: forests are cleared, leading to the erosion of unprotected earth, mine workers hunt animals for bushmeat, trees are de-barked to make panning trays to wash coltan, streams are polluted by silt from the washing coltan process and animals are disturbed by the large number of people resident and moving thorough the forest.
In , the demand for million new mobile phones drove up the costs of coltan to such an extent that smugglers began building illegal airstrips in the forests to facilitate transportation out of the forest region.
According to British primatologist Ian Redmond, the miners here have to pay one spoonful of the mineral to the military, and one to the local chief. As one of two known deposits for the mineral lie in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, the situation for gorillas there has become unbearable. Some experts estimate that in as little as five to ten years they will be extinct across most of their range". The Biden administration has dealt a potential blow to the Twin Metals Minnesota mine by imposing a ban on new leases in the Rainy River Watershed.
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