The adverse environmental and human impacts of small-scale and artisanal mining have been studied almost exclusively for gold mining, usually with a focus on the use of mercury, 24 but also in relation to lead. 25 Our study is unique in that it concerns cobalt, a critical base metal that is essential for modern technology, most notably ...
Aug 22, 2019· DRC mining risks worsen as artisanal cobalt miners turn to copper. By David Whitehouse Posted on Thursday, 22 August 2019 13:12 . Excavators and drillers at work in an open pit at Tenke Fungurume, a copper and cobalt mine 110 km northwest of Lubumbashi REUTERS/Jonny Hogg.
Jun 08, 2020· Artisanal mining is not uncommon across the wider mining industry and has been widely utilised to great effect in other mining industries such as tin and tantalum. When done correctly, artisanal mining can be an ethical source of low-cost, high-grade cobalt which also puts income directly into the hands of locals with very few alternative ...
Aug 14, 2020· In a further move, Better Mining has announced that it will be coordinating its efforts with the Fair Cobalt Alliance, a supply chain action platform founded by Huayou Cobalt, Fairphone, Signify and the Impact Facility, which is beginning its technical work to improve working conditions at artisanal mining sites informed by Better Mining data.
An artisanal miner or small-scale miner (ASM) is a subsistence miner who is not officially employed by a mining company, but works independently, mining minerals using their own resources, usually by hand.. Small-scale mining includes enterprises or individuals that employ workers for mining, but generally still using manually-intensive methods, working with hand tools.
Artisanal mining is not uncommon across the wider mining industry and has been widely utilised to great effect in other mining industries such as tin and tantalum. When done correctly, artisanal mining can be an ethical source of low-cost, high-grade cobalt which also puts income directly into the hands of locals with very few alternative ...
Jun 26, 2020· Cobalt is key to battery manufacturing, but ethical concerns persist. Large, industrial-scale operators like Glencore account for the majority of cobalt mining in the DRC – but there is nevertheless a thriving group of small-scale artisanal miners producing between 10% and 25% of the Congolese output.
In a further move, Better Mining has announced that it will be coordinating its efforts with the Fair Cobalt Alliance, a supply chain action platform founded by Huayou Cobalt, Fairphone, Signify and the Impact Facility, which is beginning its technical work to improve working conditions at artisanal mining sites informed by Better Mining data.
Mar 25, 2020· How sustainable is artisanal cobalt mining in DR Congo? That’s the research question which was addressed in a Nature Sustainability paper by a group of researchers of the University of Lubumbashi in collaboration with a team from KU Leuven. The study investigated the health impacts of the local cobalt mining activity and concluded that a more ...
Apr 06, 2020· Large scale mining companies (LSM) extract 75% of Congolese cobalt along the copper belt, in Katanga and Lualaba provinces, and artisanal miners (ASM) the other 25%. However, a significant number of LSM company source from ASM, and this cobalt is blended with their production.
Aug 22, 2019· DRC mining risks worsen as artisanal cobalt miners turn to copper. By David Whitehouse Posted on Thursday, 22 August 2019 13:12 . Excavators and drillers at work in an open pit at Tenke Fungurume, a copper and cobalt mine 110 km northwest of Lubumbashi REUTERS/Jonny Hogg.
mining company collapsed and the Second Congo War broke.9 It is difficult to precisely quantify how many workers are involved in artisanal mining. According to estimates quoted in the Guardian10 and Swiss media RTS11 there are between 200,000 and 255,000 artisanal miners involved in cobalt mining.
A programme to monitor and improve artisanal cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will double the number of mining sites it covers this year through a partnership between RCS Global and the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI). RCS Global, a company in Berlin that audits supply chains, started the “better mining” programme in 2018, collecting data on cobalt mine ...
Mar 25, 2020· How sustainable is artisanal cobalt mining in DR Congo? That’s the research question which was addressed in a Nature Sustainability paper by a group of researchers of the University of Lubumbashi in collaboration with a team from KU Leuven. The study investigated the health impacts of the local cobalt mining activity and concluded that a more ...
In a further move, Better Mining has announced that it will be coordinating its efforts with the Fair Cobalt Alliance, a supply chain action platform founded by Huayou Cobalt, Fairphone, Signify and the Impact Facility, which is beginning its technical work to improve working conditions at artisanal mining sites informed by Better Mining data.
A programme to monitor and improve artisanal cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will double the number of mining sites it covers this year through a partnership between RCS Global and the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI). RCS Global, a company in Berlin that audits supply chains, started the “better mining” programme in 2018, collecting data on cobalt mine ...
Artisanal cobalt mining in the DRC provides livelihoods to thousands of individuals. Although artisanal mining is regulated by the DRC’s 2002 mining code, the stipulations of this code are widely ignored and rarely enforced. Few artisanal miners are officially registered owing to the perceived cost, difficulty, and lack of benefits associated ...
Jun 04, 2020· The alliance recently teamed up with RCS Global Group, a company that specializes in responsible sourcing of materials, to expand assessment, monitoring and improvement of artisanal and small-scale cobalt mining practices in the DRC. The aim is to increase the transparency of the supply chain, with the hope that this will lead to safer, less ...
Social impacts of artisanal cobalt mining in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo 1 Executive summary The Demorati Repuli of ongo is the worlds leading produer of oalt, a ommodity of whih the demand has tripled during the last decade. In 2010, cobalt from Katanga Provice ensured half of the global cobalt primary production.
mining company collapsed and the Second Congo War broke.9 It is difficult to precisely quantify how many workers are involved in artisanal mining. According to estimates quoted in the Guardian10 and Swiss media RTS11 there are between 200,000 and 255,000 artisanal miners involved in cobalt mining.
Célestin Banza Lubaba Nkulu et al., “Sustainability of Artisanal Mining of Cobalt in DR Congo”, Nature Sustainability, vol. 1, no. 9 (2018), pp. 495-504. One study estimates that children are working at one in four DRC artisanal mining sites. “Interconnected Supply Chains: A Comprehensive Look at Due Diligence Challenges and ...
Cobalt mining in Congo. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) alone produces more than 50 per cent of the world’s cobalt and around 20 per cent of it is extracted by hand through a process known as artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), according to a recent report available on ResearchGate.
And because of this risk, which is often more perceived than actual, many companies will try to completely eliminate the sourcing of materials such as tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (3TGs) and cobalt from artisanal sites, focusing instead on sourcing from large scale mining (LSM) operations only.