Coltan Mining

Documentaries

• Blue Gold — the trail of misery leading to your iPhone – Medium
• Child miners: the dark side of the DRC’s coltan wealth – ISS Africa
• Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo mine for coltan and face abuse to supply smartphone industry – ABC News
• Coltan a minefield in the Congo – The Star
• EXCLUSIVE Picks, pans and bare hands: How miners in the heart of Africa toil in terrible conditions to extract the rare minerals that power your iPhone – Daily Mail Online
• Five things you need to know about coltan – ICIJ
• Gorillas are being hunted, killed and eaten by miners in the Congo – WIRED UK
• The Dirt in the New Machine – The New York Times
• The Illicit Trade of Coltan – ICIJ
• The real costs of coltan mining in the DRC — report – MINING.COM
• The Scale of Illegal Coltan Trafficking in Colombia and Venezuela – InSight Crime
• What coltan mining in the DRC costs people and the environment – The Conversation

Short Videos

• Coltan and conflict in the DRC – Democratic Republic of the Congo – ReliefWeb
• Coltan Mining a Continued Threat in Rainforest – Cultural Survival
• Missionary priest rescues children from slavery in the DRC mines – Catholic News Agency

Facts and Stats

• Coltan mining and ethics – Wikipedia

Reports

• Mining and illicit trading of coltan in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Enact – PDF