: a dull black ore that consists of a mixture of columbite and tantalite and is a minor source of tantalum
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Congo is rich in natural resources: rubber, timber, oil, gas, gold, diamonds, copper, lithium, coltan, and cobalt.
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Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
Through interviews with soldiers, politicians, and businesspeople, along with ordinary people, the book explores the role that resources such as gold and coltan played in fueling the conflict.
—Peter Eichstaedt, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2011
Manono sits at the southern end of the other major arc of Congolese minerals: the Tin Belt, which stretches north toward Rwanda and yields huge quantities of lithium, tin, and coltan, essential for various forms of high-tech manufacturing.
—Roger Peet, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
The Orinoco River, which divides Venezuela and Colombia in the Amazon, has been polluted by mining for gold and coltan in the Orinoco Mining Arc.
—Diana Durán, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
Old phones contain the rare mineral coltan that, when mined in the Congo and other parts of Africa, has reduced the habitat for endangered primates, including endangered great apes and gorillas.
—Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2022
The advance raises the prospect that M23 and its foreign allies could dominate a region that also produces tin, gold and coltan, and exacerbate a humanitarian situation in a country that already hosts more displaced people than any other in Africa.
—Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
The Afro-futurist musical, set in a hacker village made of computer parts, follows a miner who flees his life of digging up coltan after his brother’s tragic death.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
Bolívar, a sprawling state in Venezuela’s southeast, is home to steel and aluminum plants and large deposits of gold, diamonds and coltan.
—New York Times, 19 Nov. 2021
Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
Through interviews with soldiers, politicians, and businesspeople, along with ordinary people, the book explores the role that resources such as gold and coltan played in fueling the conflict.
—Peter Eichstaedt, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2011
Manono sits at the southern end of the other major arc of Congolese minerals: the Tin Belt, which stretches north toward Rwanda and yields huge quantities of lithium, tin, and coltan, essential for various forms of high-tech manufacturing.
—Roger Peet, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
The Orinoco River, which divides Venezuela and Colombia in the Amazon, has been polluted by mining for gold and coltan in the Orinoco Mining Arc.
—Diana Durán, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
Old phones contain the rare mineral coltan that, when mined in the Congo and other parts of Africa, has reduced the habitat for endangered primates, including endangered great apes and gorillas.
—Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2022
The advance raises the prospect that M23 and its foreign allies could dominate a region that also produces tin, gold and coltan, and exacerbate a humanitarian situation in a country that already hosts more displaced people than any other in Africa.
—Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
The Afro-futurist musical, set in a hacker village made of computer parts, follows a miner who flees his life of digging up coltan after his brother’s tragic death.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
Bolívar, a sprawling state in Venezuela’s southeast, is home to steel and aluminum plants and large deposits of gold, diamonds and coltan.
—New York Times, 19 Nov. 2021
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