Summary of Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By Willie M. Joseph

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Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today. Roughly 75 percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Feb 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215093900

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Unspeakable Richness

The Congo's Kolwezi is the most indispensable city in the world. The cobalt found there provides stability and energy density to rechargeable batteries. Remove cobalt from the battery, and you will have to plug in your smartphone or electric vehicle more often - and before long, the batteries may catch on fire. The Copper Belt of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a metallogenic wonder that contains vast mineral riches, including about half the world's cobalt reserves. Kolwezi, like the rest of the Congolese Copper Belt, is scarred by the mad scramble to feed cobalt up the chain into the hands of consumers across the globe.

Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) takes place at the bottom of complex supply chains that unfurl like a kraken into some of the richest and most powerful companies in the world. The battery packs in electric vehicles require up to ten kilograms of refined cobalt each, more than one thousand times the amount required for a smartphone battery. No one accepts responsibility for the negative consequences of cobalt mining in the Congo. Accountability vanishes like morning mist in the Katangan hills as it travels through the opaque supply chains. The flow of minerals and money is further obscured by a web of connections between foreign mining companies and Congolese political

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