It’s laughable that any of these practices are preventing child labor, especially when Tesla’s cobalt supply is getting mixed in with the output from dozens of area mines. Kamoto Copper Co.

nearly 60% of the world’s known cobalt resources are in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC), and the cobalt supply chain from this region is riddled with child labour, often originating at ...

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, and Dell have all been named in a federal lawsuit from parents who say their children were injured or killed in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the ...