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 ...

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

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

DR Congo authorities have suspended a major Chinese-owned copper and cobalt operation after a dam collapse spilled contaminated water into Lubumbashi, the country’s second-largest city. A containment ...

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.

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

The cobalt export suspension from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will expire on October 15. The restriction, imposed in February, extended in June and again on Sunday, had a profound impact on ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has temporarily suspended exports of cobalt as the world's leading producer hopes to stem falling prices, though analysts warn the freeze is not without risk. The ...

China’s dominance of critical mineral supply chains is not as absolute as it might appear. Cobalt is a case in point. China accounted for 78 percent of global refined output of the battery metal in ...