What Coltan Mining in the DRC Costs People and the Environment
May 29, 2022The global coltan market was valued at US$1,504.81 million in 2019. It is expected to reach US$1,933.92 million by the end of 2026, growing at a rate of 5.58% a year between 2021 and 2026. But activists, journalists and scholars have found a relationship between coltan exploitation and large-scale environmental degradation, human rights abuses ...