Tantalum is a metal in group VB of the periodic table with atomic number 73, an atomic weight of 180.95, and a density of 16.6 Mg/m 3. Its melting point is 2996 C, and it boils at 5425 C. In the solid ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

Rwanda-backed forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced late on Monday that they will pause their ...

titanium ore, zircon and tantalum ore. Chinese companies operating overseas now need to declare more than 41 types of mineral products, compared with 32 before. One of the additional items is ...

Rebel group M23, aligned with Rwanda, says it seized the key trading hub of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. M23 ...

Millions are affected in conflicts centred on mining of a metal vital for smartphones. No one cares Eastern DR Congo looks like another of those interminable ethno-political conflicts in Africa. A UN ...

He also discusses the bloody history behind the mining of their ore in the heart of Africa with Sophia Pickles of human rights organisation Global Witness. And the BBC challenges the Rwandan ...

A rebel group aligned with Rwanda says it seized a key trading hub in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, raising the ...

The US, Congo and United Nations experts accuse M23, which already controls the region's biggest tantalum-ore mine, of smuggling minerals to Rwanda. Bloomberg's Ondiro Oganga reports from Kigali.

The criminal complaint alleges that Apple buys tantalum, an ore extracted from coltan, as well as tin, tungsten and gold — the so-called 3TG minerals — from mines whose profits stoke war in ...

[Progress of the Monte Alto Rare Earth Mine Project in Brazil] The Monte Alto project of Brazil Rare Earths has revealed high-grade mineralization. The total rare earth oxides grade reached as high as ...