Image credit Mark Craemer According to a powerful article in the Globe and Mail , there is 25 Trillion dollars worth of untapped mineral wealth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Seven million people have died in the fight to control that wealth over the last twelve years. We all contribute to the tragedy every time we buy an electronic product: they contain tantalum that comes from the mineral Coltan (short for columbite-tantalite), dug … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Smartphones: Bloodstains At Our Fingertips
