Research & Papers:
- Unequal Exchange in the Age of Globalization (Andrea Ricci)
- Seizing the Means of Production: Cobalt and the Electric Vehicle Sector (Maria Sinclair)
- The DRC mining sector: overview and Chinese involvement (
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo? Corruption, Patronage, and Competitive Authoritarianism in the DRC (Stephanie A. Matti)
- A Green Transition But At What Cost? (Human Trafficking Search)
- Haut-Katanga and Lualaba: The DRC’s Mining Heartland (International Crisis Group)
- Metal mining and birth defects: a case-control study in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Daan Van Brusselen et al.)
- Cobalt (USGS)
- Landscape Analysis of Cobalt Mining Activities from 2009 to 2021 Using Very High Resolution Satellite Data (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (Chloe Brown et al.)
Newspapers & Media:
- A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution (The New York Times)
- How Hunter Biden’s Firm Helped Secure Cobalt for the Chinese (The New York Times)
- Cobalt mining for lithium ion batteries has a high human cost (Washington Post)
- Forget Gas Prices. The Billionaire Club's Run on Cobalt Says Everything About Our Battery-Powered Future (Vanity Fair)
- Green Energy's Dirty Secret: Its Hunger for African Resources (Foreign Policy)
- ‘Like slave and master’: DRC miners toil for 30p an hour to fuel electric cars (The Guardian)
- Cobalt isn’t a conflict mineral (Africa is a Country)
- Hands off Africa (Africa is a Country)
- The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush (The New Yorker)