Sentence examples for coltan in from inspiring English sources
Armed militias — really gangs of thugs — monopolize resources like cocaine in Colombia or coltan in Congo, or terrorize the locals into paying tribute to religious fanatics, as in Somalia, Nigeria and the Philippines.
The enrichment schemes involve the plundering of timber and high-value minerals like gold, diamonds and coltan in eastern DRC and the creation of false payment and pension schemes for army sections that do not exist ('ghost soldiers').
Mr Kagame justifies his intervention on the grounds of Rwanda's own security but his army reportedly made £20m a month from mining coltan in 2000 and still exports quantities of diamonds and gold that were mined in Congo.
People armed with nothing more than a spade, who have given up everything to pan for the mineral coltan in Congo, which feeds the mobile phone and laptop industry in the west.
Game wardens (whose expenses are paid partly by donations from several American zoos) had caught him digging coltan in the reserve after he'd been warned not to do so.
Taking the global cell phone industry as an example, children are both one of the largest growing purchasers of cell phones, shaping the emerging social media design of many cell phone features, while also being exploited in the mining of coltan (in countries such as the Eastern DRC), a key ingredient in mobile phone technology.
In Phone Story's case, that took the form of four mini-games about the "troubling supply chain" behind smartphones – all smartphones, not specifically iPhones – including coltan extraction in Congo, outsourced labour in China, environmental waste in Pakistan, as well as the mania for gadgets in the West.
Most of the coltan mines in the DRC are in the remote South Kivu district.
However, although important for the local economy in Congo, the contribution of coltan mining in Congo to the world supply of tantalum is usually small.
Congo is rich in minerals, including diamonds, gold, copper and coltan –used in mobile phones.
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