Sentence examples for coltan mining from inspiring English sources

I don't think coltan mining does as much permanent damage.

What muddied up the story, first of all, was the curiously egalitarian quality of coltan mining.

"Outside the reserve, I think that coltan mining is the lesser evil of the types of exploitation that occur when there is no government," Hart said.

They oppose mobile phones on ideological grounds (coltan mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo is ruining the country), but the house doesn't have a telephone.

As for coltan mining, Hart said it is silly for the outside world to try to squeeze one of the few ways for poor people to make a bit of money.

The most important external factor in fostering growth was the implementation of the agreement reached by the government in 2007 with three Chinese state-owned companies; by 2008 work had begun on the restoration of the DRC's infrastructure in return for profits from copper, cobalt, and coltan mining.

At the Humule coltan mine a few gumbooted miners scramble up a red-earth ravine where last year there were thousands.

Elsewhere, according to a senior Rwandan officer who recently sought asylum in Belgium, the army hires Hutu militiamen to work its coltan mines.

In the immediate future, it looks as though less and less of the world's tantalum will come from Congo's coltan mines.

They have forced the Hutu-led FDLR from its jungle bases, stopped it from controlling the local coltan mines which had financed it, and persuaded hundreds of FDLR soldiers to give up.

He replaced the Congolese bosses of public utilities with his own people, put the soldiers running the coltan mines in civilian clothes and inserted his troops into local forces.