The Democratic Republic of Congo indicated it’s approving American firm Virtus Minerals Inc.’s purchase of copper and cobalt ...

American company Virtus Minerals is poised to buy Chemaf, a troubled miner in the Democratic Republic of Congo, marking the first commercial deal borne out of the growing minerals partnership between ...

Emissions surged after the processing facility opened to produce critical mineral for electric-car batteries, an environment ...

Along the 63-mile highway between the towns of Kolwezi and Fungurume sit two towering symbols of China’s stranglehold over resources in the southeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo: huge ...

Approval of a high-stakes acquisition signals how a new US partnership aims to secure access to key battery metals.

Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers laboring in ...

Residents living near a mine contracted respiratory illnesses following continued exposure to sulfur dioxide gas, a US ...

A new investigation alleges pollution, illness and displacement around one of the world’s largest cobalt operations, raising ...

The DRC produces more than 70 percent of the world's cobalt, a metal in ever-growing demand to make the batteries used in electric cars.

The Orion Critical Mineral Consortium has signed a deal to acquire mining assets in the war-ravaged country that leads the world in cobalt production. A multibillion-dollar fund that the Trump ...

KINSHASA, Congo - Intense activities at Copper and Cobalt mining sites contributes to high cases of birth defects among children in the mineral-rich DR Congo, a research conducted by top universities ...