Is it time to embrace artisanal cobalt miners?

Transparent investment: Artisanal miners work at a former industrial copper-cobalt mine in the south of DRC. The United States signed an MoU with the country and Zambia in December to jointly develop a supply chain for EV batteries. — Reuters

THE problems around artisanal cobalt mining in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will take “a coalition to solve”, according to Microsoft .

The US$1.9 trillion (RM8.4 trillion) US tech giant was recently in the DRC to see what the other end of the consumer electronics supply chain looks like.