American company Virtus Minerals is poised to buy Chemaf, a troubled miner in the Democratic Republic of Congo, marking the first commercial deal borne out of the growing minerals partnership between ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo indicated it’s approving American firm Virtus Minerals Inc.’s purchase of copper and cobalt ...

Emissions surged after the processing facility opened to produce critical mineral for electric-car batteries, an environment ...

A new investigation alleges pollution, illness and displacement around one of the world’s largest cobalt operations, raising ...

Approval of a high-stakes acquisition signals how a new US partnership aims to secure access to key battery metals.

Residents living near a mine contracted respiratory illnesses following continued exposure to sulfur dioxide gas, a US ...

Commodity trader Glencore has pulled sizeable cobalt stocks from China's Wuxi exchange to honour commitments to electric-vehicle battery makers in the country, due to the limited supply of the ...

Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers laboring in ...

The DRC produces more than 70 percent of the world's cobalt, a metal in ever-growing demand to make the batteries used in electric cars.

FILE PHOTO: Excavators and drillers at work in an open pit at Tenke Fungurume, a copper and cobalt mine 110 km (68 miles) northwest of Lubumbashi in Congo's copper-producing south, owned by miner ...