A Look At The Cobalt Miners Who Make iPhones And Teslas Possible (AAPL; TSLA)

From the Daily Mail, January 30:

A sea of workers [at] Shabara, one of the largest cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of 

Congo, where hundreds of thousands of people are exposed to toxic chemicals every day 

while mining for the precious mineral  

....MUCH MORE

 

Mr. Musk has been incrementally cutting the cobalt content of his batteries for a half-decade but for the rest of the manufacturers and product purveyors of this modern life, not (nearly) so much. 

June 2018

"Tesla leads electric vehicle race to cut cobalt dependency" (TSLA)
October 2021
"Tesla will only use iron-based batteries for standard model EVs" (TSLA)
April 2022
Tesla's Pivotal Move In Battery Chemistry (TSLA)

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