Tuesday, January 31, 2023

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

From the Daily Mail, January 30:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/01/30/13/66883347-11668015-A_sea_of_workers_Shabara_one_of_the_largest_cobalt_mines_in_the_-a-3_1675084854760.jpg

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  
 
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
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