Conflict Minerals: Trucking-Related Companies Find It Difficult to Identify 'Conflict Minerals' in Supply Chains

Jun 4, 2020 | Eric Miller, Transit Topics
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It has been more than six years since America’s public companies began searching for African “conflict minerals” throughout their complex supply chains, with the goal of curbing funding for hostilities and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo region. Despite progress, it remains difficult for trucking-related companies and other firms to know for sure if some of their products are being made using tantalum, tin, tungsten or gold, or “3TG,” mined and refined in Congo and nine of its neighbor countries — and if so, to what extent.