How Conflict Minerals Funded a War That Killed Millions, and Why Tech Giants are Finally Cleaning Up Their Act
Publisher: TechRepublic UK
Author(s): Nick Heath
Date: 2014
Topics: Data and Technologies, Extractive Resources, Governance
Countries: Congo (DRC)
The minerals from the DRC's mines have changed hands innumerable times on their journey to our PCs and phones. After being dug up in central Africa the minerals travel through a long and snaking chain of suppliers, travelling to Asia and elsewhere to be smelted into metals and then onto the wider world where they end up in electronics, as well in vehicles and jewellery.