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www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/congo-cobalt-mining-for-lithium-ion-battery

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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.

The sun was rising over one of the richest mineral deposits on Earth, in one of the poorest countries, as Sidiki Mayamba got ready for work. Mayamba is a cobalt miner. And the red-dirt savanna