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FQML is weighing a $1 billion investment | Zambia

January 4, 2020January 5, 2020 arnbethnic

TORONTO/LONDON (Reuters) – Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals Ltd is weighing an investment of around $1 billion to lift output at Africa’s biggest copper mine in Zambia, a company document seen by Reuters showed, despite a feud with state miner ZCCM-IH over project funding. The investment would add a decade of life and head off production declines at the Kansanshi copper mine, increasing annual production to 300,000 tonnes over time from an expected 235,000 tonnes last year, according to a company presentation given to Zambian government officials. But securing board… Read More Here

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Apple, Microsoft and Google sued over dead child miners |DRC

January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 arnbethnic

On December 15, International Rights Advocates (IRA) filed a case in US district court in Washington, D.C. against Apple, Alphabet (the parent company of Google and YouTube), Dell, Microsoft and Tesla on behalf of the families of 14 Congolese child miners. A worker carries wet Cobalt on his back at the Shinkolobwe Cobalt mine in the DRC (AP Photo / Schalk van Zuydam, File) Of the fourteen, six have died, while eight suffer from life-altering injuries including crushed legs and full body paralysis. According to IRA, the case has been… Read More Here

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Child Labour and Sexual Exploitation in Cobalt Mining | DRC

January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 arnbethnic

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, many children working in mines say they are physically and sexually abused. They’re forced to mine cobalt, a metal used to make telephones and computers. Now, in a landmark lawsuit, a non-profit organisation is accusing five of the world’s largest tech companies of exploiting child labour and being complicit in the deaths of some. Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports. Read More Here