Congo’s coltan miners dig for world’s tech — and struggle regardless of who is in charge. Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan quarry in Rubaya, Congo, earlier this month.

A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has killed at least 12 people, a mining source and a civil society source said on Friday.

The resulting mingling of Congolese and Rwandan coltan production was “the most important contamination of supply chains” to date, the U.N. said. M23 was taking in $800,000 monthly from taxes ...

The mines produce coltan — short for columbite-tantalite — an ore from which the metals tantalum and niobium are extracted. Both are considered critical raw materials by the United States, the ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) -A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has killed at least 12 people, a mining source and a civil society source said on Friday.

The mines produce coltan — short for columbite-tantalite — an ore from which the metals tantalum and niobium are extracted. Both are considered critical raw materials by the United States, the ...

The coltan then is exported to Rwanda, U.N. experts said. But even before M23 seized control of the mine, analysts said that the mineral was sold to Rwanda, ...

The coltan then is exported to Rwanda, U.N. experts said. But even before M23 seized control of the mine, analysts said that the mineral was sold to Rwanda, ...

The coltan then is exported to Rwanda, U.N. experts said. But even before M23 seized control of the mine, analysts said that the mineral was sold to Rwanda, ...

Text from AP News story: “Congo’s coltan miners dig for world’s tech — and struggle regardless of who is in charge,” by David Yusufu Kibingila and Monika Pronczuk Photos by Moses Sawasawa ...

Congo's coltan miners dig for world's tech — and struggle regardless of who is in charge Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the ...