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SUBMITTER: Banza Lubaba Nkulu C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6166862 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Banza Lubaba Nkulu Célestin C Casas Lidia L Haufroid Vincent V De Putter Thierry T Saenen Nelly D ND Kayembe-Kitenge Tony T Musa Obadia Paul P Kyanika Wa Mukoma Daniel D Lunda Ilunga Jean-Marie JM Nawrot Tim S TS Luboya Numbi Oscar O Smolders Erik E Nemery Benoit B
Nature sustainability 20180914 9
The sustainability of cobalt is an important emerging issue because this critical base metal is an essential component of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. More than half the world's cobalt mine production comes from the Katanga Copperbelt in DR Congo, with a substantial proportion (estimated at 15-20%) being extracted by artisanal miners. Here we show, in a case study performed in the town of Kolwezi, that people living in a neighbourhood that had been transformed into an artisanal c ...[more]