Coltan (short for columbite–tantalites and known industrially as tantalite) is a dull black metallic ore from which the elements niobium and tantalum are extracted. The niobium-dominant mineral in coltan is columbite (after niobium's original American name columbium), and the tantalum-dominant mineral is tantalite.[1]
Globally, 60% of all mining companies have registered with the highly regulated stock exchanges in Toronto and Vancouver. However, due to environmental regulations, no mining of coltan is currently taking place in Canada itself,[11] with the exception of a single proposed mine in Blue River, British Columbia. In Canada, Tanco Mine near Bernic Lake in Manitoba has tantalum reserves, is the world's largest producer of caesium, and is operated by Global Advanced Metals Pty Ltd. A discussion of Canadian mining by Natural Resources Canada, updated in 2017, does not mention either coltan or tantalum.[12] A Rwandan official discussing prospective mines in his country said that Canada had 4% of global production in 2009; but in rock so hard that the ore is too expensive to extract. In 2009, Rwanda had 9% of the world's tantalum production.[13]
In 2016 Rwanda accounted for 50% of global tantalum production. In 2016, Rwanda announced that AB Minerals Corporation would open a coltan separation plant in Rwanda by mid-2017, the first to operate on the African continent.[14] Uganda and Rwanda both exported coltan in the early 2000s after they invaded the DRC, but the bulk of this coltan was not mined within those countries but smuggled from Congolese mines, according to the final report of the UN Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth in the Democratic Republic of Congo.[15][16]
In 2013 Highland African Mining Company (HAMC), now Noventa, closed its Marropino mine in the Gilé District of Zambézia Province, Mozambique, citing poor-quality infrastructure and ore that was both very radioactive and mostly depleted. HAMC was losing US$3.00 on every ton extracted and had reported accumulated losses of around US$150 million by June 2013.[17]
Reserves have been identified in Afghanistan,[18] but the ongoing war there precludes either general exploration or exploring specifically for coltan for the foreseeable future.[19] The United States does not produce tantalum due to the poor quality of its reserves.[20]
Australian mining company Sons of Gwalia once produced half the world's tantalum but went into administration in 2004. Talison Minerals paid $205 million to buy the Wodgina and Greenbushes tantalum business of Sons of Gwalia but temporarily closed Wodgina because of falling tantalum prices. The mine re-opened in 2011 but closed again after less than a year. Atlas Iron began mining iron ore there in 2010 and ceased operations there in April 2017.[21] Global Advanced Mining announced in 2018 that it planned to restart tantalum production at the Greenbushes mine within a year. Talison Lithium, 51% owned by Chinese company Tianqi Lithium Industries, Inc. (SZSE:002466) and 49% by the US-based Albemarle Corporation, will continue to mine lithium at Greenbushes in parallel with the GAM tantalum operation.[22]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced in 2009 that a significant reserve of coltan was discovered in western Venezuela, although at least one coltan mining operation had previously been authorized in the area. Nonetheless, he outlawed private mines in the region and, saying that the FARC was financing itself with illegal mining, sent 15,000 troops in to deal with them. Technical advisers for the mining project were allegedly provided by a subsidiary of Khatam-al Anbiya Construction Headquarters, a fully owned enterprise of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard which had been under US sanctions since October 25, 2007.[23]
Also in 2009, the Colombian government announced coltan reserves had been found in Colombia's eastern provinces.[24] Director of the Colombian Police Oscar Naranjo Trujillo stated in October 2011 that the FARC and the Sinaloa Cartel are working together in the unlicensed coltan mining in Colombia. Colombia announced a joint operation with the United States to arrest three suspects who, according to Semana, inherited the illegal business run from their brother, Francisco Cifuentes Villa, alias 'Pancho Cifuentes', who once worked for Pablo Escobar.[25] In 2012 Colombian police seized 17 tons of coltan in Guainía Department. The police said it had been mined on an indigenous reserve and bought for $10 a kilo and sold for $80 to 100 dollars a kilo, after smuggling it across the border into Brazil, where there are smelters, and sold on through the black market to buyers in Germany, Belgium, Kazakhstan and the United States. Colombia has 5% of global coltan reserves.[26] One of the regions suffering from illegal gold and coltan mining in Colombia is the wetland known as Estrella Fluvial del Inírida (Inírida Fluvial Star), a Ramsar protected wetland.[27][28][29]
Tonnes of tantalum mined
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Australia
165
218
224
170
238
274
276
302
330
350
485
660
940
765
807
854
478
441
557
81
0
80
0
0
Brazil
90
84
60
50
50
50
55
55
310
165
190
210
200
200
213
216
176
180
180
180
180
180
140
140
Canada
86
93
48
25
36
33
55
49
57
54
57
77
58
55
57
63
56
45
40
25
0
25
50
50
D.R. Congo
10
16
8
6
1
1
—
—
—
—
130
60
30
15
20
33
14
71
100
87
—
—
100
110
Rwanda
113
165
121
124
125
123
116
112
110
107
102
85
62
210
264
187
134
144
171
115
110
120
150
150
Africa, Other
45
66
59
59
8
3
3
3
82
76
208
173
242
245
333
214
146
135
313
297
391
390
230
140
WORLD
396
477
399
310
333
361
389
409
779
645
1070
1180
1470
1280
1430
1380
870
872
1190
670
681
790
670
590
1990–1993: U.S. Geological Survey, "1994 Minerals Yearbook" (MYB), "COLUMBIUM (NIOBIUM) AND TANTALUM" By Larry D. Cunningham, Table 10; 1994–1997: MYB 1998, Table 10; 1998–2001: MYB 2002, p. 21.13; 2002–2003: MYB 2004, p. 20.13; 2004: MYB 2008, p. 52.12; 2005-2009: MYB 2009, p. 52.13. USGS did not report data for other countries (China, Kazakhstan, Russia, etc.) owing to data uncertainties.
— Not available.
— Zero.
% of Global tantalum production from mining
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Australia
41.7%
45.7%
56.1%
54.8%
71.5%
75.9%
71.0%
73.8%
42.4%
54.3%
45.3%
55.9%
63.9%
59.8%
56.4%
61.9%
54.9%
50.6%
46.8%
12.1%
0.0%
10.1%
0.0%
0.0%
Brazil
22.7%
17.6%
15.0%
16.1%
15.0%
13.9%
14.1%
13.4%
39.8%
25.6%
17.8%
17.8%
13.6%
15.6%
14.9%
15.7%
20.2%
20.6%
15.1%
26.9%
26.4%
22.8%
20.9%
23.7%
Canada
21.7%
19.5%
12.0%
8.1%
10.8%
9.1%
14.1%
12.0%
7.3%
8.4%
5.3%
6.5%
3.9%
4.3%
4.0%
4.6%
6.4%
5.2%
3.4%
3.7%
0.0%
3.2%
7.5%
8.5%
D.R. Congo
2.5%
3.4%
2.0%
1.9%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
12.1%
5.1%
2.0%
1.2%
1.4%
2.4%
1.6%
8.1%
8.4%
13.0%
—
—
14.9%
18.6%
Rwanda
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
16.2%
15.2%
22.4%
25.4%
Africa, Other
11.4%
13.8%
14.8%
19.0%
2.4%
0.8%
0.8%
0.7%
10.5%
11.8%
19.4%
14.7%
16.5%
19.1%
23.3%
15.5%
16.8%
15.5%
26.3%
44.3%
57.4%
49.4%
34.3%
23.7%
WORLD
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
Use and demand
Coltan is used primarily for the production of tantalum capacitors, used in mobile phones and almost every kind of electronic device.[31][32][33] Niobium and tantalum have a wide range of uses, including refractive lenses for glasses, cameras, phones and printers. They are also used in semiconductor circuits, and capacitors for small electronic devices such as hearing aids, pacemakers, and MP3 players, as well as in computer hard drives, automobile electronics, and surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters for mobile phones.[34]
Coltan is also used to make high-temperature alloys for jet engines, air-based turbines, and land-based turbines.[35] More recently, in the late 2000s, the nickel-tantalum super-alloys used in jet engines account for 15% of tantalum consumption, but pending orders for the Airbus and the 787 Dreamliner may increase this proportion, as well as China's pending order for 62 787-8 airplanes.[36][37]
Certain countries rich in natural resources have been said to suffer from the apparently paradoxical "resource curse" - showing worse economic development than countries with fewer resources.[39] Wealth of resources may also correspond to "... the likelihood of weak democratic development, corruption, and civil war".[39] High levels of corruption lead to great political instability because whoever controls the assets (usually the political leaders and the government, in the case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) can use them for their own benefit. The resources generate wealth, which the leaders use to stay in power "... either through legal means, or coercive ones (e.g. funding militias)".[40] The increased importance of coltan in electronics "occurred as warlords and armies in the eastern Congo converted artisanal mining operations ... into slave labour regimes to earn hard currency to finance their militias," as one anthropological study put it in 2008.[41] When much of eastern Congo came under the control of Rwandan forces in the 1990s, Rwanda suddenly became a major exporter of coltan, benefiting from the weakness of the Congolese government.[42][need quotation to verify] The soaring price "brought in as much as $20 million a month to rebel groups" and other factions trading coltan mined in northeastern Congo, according to a U.N. report.[43]
Mining
For Congolese, mining is the readiest source of income, because the work is consistently available, even if only for a dollar a day.[44] The work can be laborious; miners can walk for days into the forest to reach the ore, scratch it from the earth with hand tools, and pan it. About 90% of young men[dubious – discuss] in Congo have done this.[45] Research found that many Congolese leave farming because they need money quickly and cannot wait for crops to grow. Farming also presents its own obstacles. For example, the lack of roads in the Congolese interior makes it extremely difficult to transport produce to market and a harvest can be seized by militias or the military.[44] With their food gone, people resort to mining to survive. But organized mines may be run by corrupt groups such as militias. The Congolese mine coltan with few tools, no safety procedures, and often no mining experience.[41] No government aid or intervention is available in many unethical and abusive circumstances. Miners consider coltan mining a way to provide for themselves in the face of widespread war and conflict and a government that has no concern for their welfare.[45]
A 2007 study of the radioactivity of the coltan mined in Masisi and other parts of the North Kivu Province found "that grinding and sieving coltan can give rise to high occupational doses, up to 18 mSv per year on average."[46]
Ethics of mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have made it difficult for the DRC to benefit from the exploitation of its coltan reserves. Mining of coltan is mainly artisanal and small-scale and vulnerable to extortion and human trafficking.[47] A 2003 UN Security Council report[48] stated that much of the ore is mined illegally and smuggled across Congo's eastern border by militias from neighbouring Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.[49] All three countries named by the United Nations as coltan smugglers denied doing this. Austrian journalist Klaus Werner [de] however has documented links between multi-national companies like Bayer and the smuggling and illegal coltan mines.[50] A United Nations committee investigating the plunder of gems and minerals from the Congo, listed in its final report in 2003[48] approximately 125 companies and individuals whose business activities breach international norms. Companies accused of irresponsible corporate behavior included Cabot Corporation,[51] Eagle Wings Resources International[52] the Forrest Group[53] and OM Group.[54] Some of the fighters were eventually tried before the International Criminal Court tribunal in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.
Income from coltan smuggling likely financed the military occupation of Congo,[55] and prolonged the civil conflict afterwards. A UN panel studied the eastern Congo for months before releasing a remarkably sharp condemnation of the ongoing military occupation of eastern Congo by Ugandan, Rwandan, and other foreign military forces, as well as the many bands of Congolese rebels fighting with one another. The UN report accused the fighters of massively looting Congolese natural resources, and said that the war persisted because the fighters were enriching themselves by mining and smuggling out coltan, timber, gold, and diamonds.[56] They also said that smuggled minerals financed the fighting and provided money for weapons. A 2005 report on the Rwandan economy by the South African Institute for Security Studies found that Rwanda official coltan production soared nearly tenfold between 1999 and 2001, from 147 tons to 1,300 tons, and for the first time provided more revenue than from the country traditional primary exports, tea and coffee. Similarly, Uganda exported 2.5 tons of coltan exports a year before the conflict broke out in 1997. In 1999 its export volume exploded to nearly 70 tons.
"Part of the increase in production is due to the opening of new mines in Rwanda. However, the increase is primarily due to the fraudulent re-export of coltan of Congolese origin."
Many of the corporations participating in the 1999-2000 business stampede caused by $400 coltan were in fact participants in the conflict. The Rwandan army, as Rwanda Metals, exported at least 100 tons per month. A UN panel estimated that the Coltan extraction causes problems that adjoin or overlap those caused by blood diamonds and uses similar methods such as smuggling across the porous Rwandan border, environmentalists and human rights workers began to speak of "conflict minerals" or "conflict resources" more generally. It is difficult to verify the sourcing of fungible materials like ores, so some processors, Cabot Corporation (USA) for example, have announced that they would avoid unsourced Central African coltan altogether.[57] The Rwandan army could have made $20 million a month, and must have made at least $250 million over 18 months. "This is substantial enough to finance the war," the panel noted in its report.
"Here lies the vicious circle of the war. Coltan has permitted the Rwandan army to sustain its presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The army has provided protection and security to the individuals and companies extracting the mineral. These have made money which is shared with the army, which in turn continues to provide the enabling environment to continue the exploitation."[58]
In 2009, DRC coltan was going to China to be manufactured into wires and electronic-grade tantalum powder.[59] Coltan imports from the DRC into Europe usually went to Russia or Central/Eastern Europe, via the route through Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Piraeus in Greece to the Balkans. An offshore consortium registered in the British Virgin Islands named Nova Dies controlled most of the trans-Balkan trade route.[60][unreliable source?] This export pipeline mostly carries unprocessed coltan mined in unsafe artisanal mines, so this market hinders development of safer extraction infrastructure in the DRC. The Balkan trade route, therefore, poses a long-term threat to the DRC's economy; it finances and validates the vast harm done to DR Congo by the violent and corrupt past and current system.[61]
Estimates of Congo's coltan deposits range upwards from 64% of global reserves.[62][63] but estimates at the high end of the range are difficult to trace to reliable data.[64] Professional bodies like the British Geological Survey estimate that Central Africa as a whole has 9% of global assets.[65]Tantalum, the primary element extracted from coltan, can also be obtained from other sources, but Congolese coltan represented around 10% of world production in 2008.[66][67]
The United States responded to conflict minerals with section 1501 of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which required companies that might have conflict minerals including Coltan in their supply chain to register with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and disclose their suppliers. The legislation appears to have had limited success. Based on extensive qualitative fieldwork conducted from 2014 to 2016 with coltan buyers operating in Bukama Territory, Kalemie and Lubumbashi, Katanga Province, one researcher suggested that conflict mineral reforms resulted in better oversight and organization of supply chains, but that inaction by the Congolese government had led to locally negotiated solutions and territorialization, leading to secretive mining activities.[68]
The eastern mountain gorilla's population has diminished as well. Miners, far from food sources and often hungry, hunt gorillas.[71] The gorilla population in the DRC fell from 17,000 to 5,000 in the decade prior to 2009, and Mountain Gorillas in the Great Lakes region numbered only 700, UNEP said in 2009. Hunted for bushmeat, a prized delicacy in western Africa, and threatened by logging, slash-and-burn agriculture and armed conflict, the gorilla population was critically endangered, they said.[72] The population of Grauer's gorillas were particularly threatened by changes in their environment, with a population in January 2018 of only about 3,800.[73][74]
An estimated 3–5 million tons of bushmeat is obtained by killing animals, including gorillas, every year. Demand for bushmeat comes from urban dwellers who consider it a delicacy, as well as from remote populations of artisanal miners.[75] Environmentalists who interviewed miners in and around Kahuzi-Biéga National Park and the Itombwe Nature Reserve found that the miners did confirm that they had been eating bushmeat and that they did think that the practice had caused a decline in primate numbers. Since the miners said they would cease the practice if they had another food supply, the authors suggested that efforts to stop the gorilla population decline should consider addressing this issue to reduce the depredations of subsistence hunting. The mines in these nature reserves were producing cassiterite, gold, coltan and wolframite, and "most mines were controlled by armed groups."[76]
Health concerns
There is a high prevalence of respiratory complaints in Congolese informal coltan miners. It has been suggested that efficient occupational safety measures be implemented. Also, there is a need to regulate the informal mining business due to a high death toll.[77]
Price increases and changes in demand
The production and sale of coltan and niobium from African mines dropped significantly after the dramatic price spike in 2000 from the dot-com frenzy, from $400 to the current price level of around $100. Figures from the United States Geological Survey partially confirm this.[78][79] The Tantalum-Niobium International Study Centre in Belgium, the country that colonized the DRC, has encouraged international buyers to avoid Congolese coltan on ethical grounds: "take care in obtaining ... raw materials from lawful sources. Harm, or the threat of harm, to local people, wildlife or the environment is unacceptable."[80]
In addition to environmental harm caused by erosion, pollution and deforestation, agriculture and as a result food security suffered in the DRC as a result of mining. A follow-up UN report in 2003 noted a sharp increase in 1999 and 2000 in the global price of tantalum, which naturally increased coltan production. Some of the increased production came from eastern DC where there are "rebel groups and unscrupulous business people" forcing farmers and their families to leave land where the rebels wanted to mine, "forcing them to work in artisanal mines...widespread destruction of agriculture and devastating social effects occurred, which in a number of instances were akin to slavery."
A shift also took place from traditional sources such as Australia to new suppliers such as Egypt,[81] perhaps because of the bankruptcy of the world's biggest supplier, Australia's Sons of Gwalia may have caused or contributed to this change. The operations previously owned by Gwalia in Wodgina and Greenbushes continue to operate in some capacity.
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لمعانٍ أخرى، طالع جائزة الكرة الذهبية (توضيح). جائزة الغولدن غلوبالشعارمعلومات عامةنوع الجائزة جائزة أفلام — جائزة تلفاز البلد الولايات المتحدة مقدمة من رابطة هوليوود للصحافة الأجنبية المكان الولايات المتحدة أول جائزة 1944 موقع الويب goldenglobes.com (الإنجليزية) تعديل - تعد…
Luxembourg between 600 BC and 100 AD Titelberg, a Celtic oppidum: the ramparts Celtic Luxembourg existed during the period from roughly 600 BC until 100 AD, when the Celts inhabited what is now the territory of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Their culture was well developed, especially from the 1st century BC, as can be seen from the remains of the extensive Titelberg site in the far southwest of the country and from the impressive finds in several tombs and necropolises in the Moselle valley an…
Lists of people of Turkish origin by country By traditional areas of settlement: Turkey Cyprus Algeria Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Georgia Egypt Iraq Jordan Kosovo Lebanon Libya North Macedonia Romania Saudi Arabia Syria Tunisia By modern diasporas: Australia Austria Belgium Canada Denmark France Germany Italy Liechtenstein Netherlands Norway Poland Russia Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States vte The following is a list of notable Turkish Americans, including both original immigra…
Ethnic group in Cameroon This article may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling. You can assist by editing it. (February 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Ethnic group TikarTotal population170,000Regions with significant populationsThe Adamawa Region of CameroonLanguagesTikarFrenchEnglishReligion65% Christianity25% Traditional central African religions10% IslamRelated ethnic groupsBafut • Bamum • Kom • Nso The Tikar (also Tikari, Tika, Tikali,…
1991 studio album by Forced EntryAs Above, So BelowStudio album by Forced EntryReleasedJune 14, 1991RecordedDecember 1990StudioNormandy Sound in Warren, Rhode IslandGenreThrash metal, technical thrash metalLength45:09LabelRelativity RecordsProducerTom SoaresForced Entry chronology Uncertain Future(1989) As Above, So Below(1991) The Shore(1995) As Above, So Below is the second and final full-length studio album by American thrash metal band Forced Entry. It was released on June 14, 1991, …
Yang Berhormat Dato' SriKarpal Singh Ketua Nasional Partai Aksi Demokratis ke-3Masa jabatan4 September 2004 – 29 Maret 2014PendahuluLim Kit SiangPenggantiTan Kok Wai (Acting)Anggota Parlemen Malaysiadapil Bukit GelugorMasa jabatan24 Maret 2004 – 17 April 2014PendahuluKonstituensi baruPenggantiRamkarpal SinghAnggota Parlemen Malaysiadapil JelutongMasa jabatan31 Juli 1978 – 29 November 1999PendahuluRasiah RajasingamPenggantiLee Kah Choon Informasi pribadiLahirKarpa…
Baesa, karya Guillaume Rouillé dalam Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Baesa (Ibrani: בַּעְשָׁא, Baʿasha, artinya dia yang menghancurkan; bahasa Inggris: Baasha) adalah raja ke-3 Kerajaan Israel (Samaria) menurut Alkitab Ibrani dan Perjanjian Lama di Alkitab Kristen. Ia membasmi seluruh keturunan Yerobeam I (1 Raja-raja 15:29). Ayahnya bernama Ahia dari suku Isakhar.[1] Ia memerintah 24 tahun di Tirza. Setelah meninggal, anaknya Ela menggantikannya menjadi raja.[2]…
Mexican politician Pablo Alejo López NúñezBorn (1967-07-17) 17 July 1967 (age 56)Ensenada, Baja California, MexicoNationalityMexicanOccupationPoliticianPolitical party PAN Pablo Alejo López Núñez (born 17 July 1967) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party. As of 2003 he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Baja California.[1] References ^ Perfil del legislador. Legislative Information System. Retrieved 22 M…
1945–1948 China to Japan return movement The Japanese being repatriated from Huludao, China The Japanese repatriation from Huludao (Japanese: 葫蘆島在留日本人大送還, Hepburn: Koro-tō Zairyū Nihonjin Dai-sōkan, Chinese: 葫芦岛日侨大遣返) refers to sending the Japanese people who were left in Northeast China after the end of World War II in 1945 back to Japan. Over one million Japanese were taken back to their homeland from 1946 to 1948 by the American forces' ships und…
Pour les articles homonymes, voir A View to a Kill. Cet article concerne le film de John Glen. Pour la chanson des Duran Duran, voir A View to a Kill. Dangereusement vôtre Données clés Titre original A View to a Kill Réalisation John Glen Scénario Michael G. WilsonRichard Maibaum Musique John Barry Acteurs principaux Roger MooreChristopher WalkenTanya RobertsGrace JonesPatrick Macnee Sociétés de production EON ProductionsDanjaqMetro-Goldwyn-MayerUnited Artists Pays de production Royau…
В Википедии есть статьи о других людях с такой фамилией, см. Вильягра. Хонатан Вильягра Общая информация Полное имя Хонатан Габриэль Вильягра Бустаманте Родился 28 марта 2001(2001-03-28) (23 года)Киликура, Чили Гражданство Чили Рост 183 см Позиция защитник Информация о клубе Клуб Уни…