Posted on 12/11/2023 11:32:11 AM PST by RandFan
In 2005, Global Witness' devasting report entitled 'Under-mining Peace' documented the exploitation of Congo's miners of cassiterite, an iron ore used in electronic circuit boards.
Channel 4 News' Jonathan Miller & filmmaker Elizabeth Jones were the first foreigners to visit these mines, whose ore has been at the heart of Congo's many years of armed conflict......
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This is Hell on Earth.
Drill baby drill and mine baby mine for oil, natural gas, coal, lithium, cobalt, or anything else we have.
I personally spent several years in the Congo,, from 2006 to 2012, from Tankanyika to the Atlantic. One thing was very evident in that flying on scheduled airline while there, every flight was 50% Chinese pax. They were all in the mining business.
Elizabeth Jones! What happened to her brother Indiana?
Cassiterite is not an iron ore. It is tin oxide. it can occasionally be found in iron deposits, but it is definitely not an “Iron Ore”.
Moreover, “ores” as taken from the ground are not “used in circuit boards.”
Activists are such ignorant sluts.
Plus, if one wishes to be pedantic, the tin is primarily used to make solder, which is used to attach components to the printed circuit boards not in making the boards themselves.
Also goes into making true bronze, linotype (mostly in the older days of printing), and if you really want to anger the activists, in lead bullets.
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