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Unstable cobalt supplies rattle the technology industry

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07 March 2018

Gilles Carbonnier

IHEID

Cobalt, an essential component of batteries, has become indispensable to the technology industry. This metal is refined in China and mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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