No.1 Cobalt Mining Nation Just Adopted A Dangerous Mining Strategy

Back from Myanmar and Mongolia. To find that one of the world’s fast-growing mining trends has taken another twist this week. As I’ve been discussing for several months, governments in mining nations globally are obsessing about “value-added” production. Demanding that miners upgrade and refine metals in-country, instead of exporting lower-value products like concentrate.  And this week, another government got on that bandwagon. In the world’s top cobalt-producing nation: the Democratic Republic of Congo. …