World Bank: Sub Saharan Africa ... dominant in mining rare earths in the DRC. There is little to mechanization in mining activities. Alarm has been raised over the use of child labor in the ...

A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) has confirmed Phalaborwa's significant potential as a low capital intensity, high-margin, near-term rare earth development project. The project has a total ...

A recent BBC investigation has uncovered disturbing accounts of the exploitation of children within South Africa's illegal mining industry, where minors trafficked from neighbouring countries are ...

including child labor. Some experts have suggested there should be more of a focus on recycling rare earth elements rather than mining. A recent study found materials from old cell phones ...

China only has around 36 percent of the world’s known rare earth reserves ... extracted from countries that permit illegal mining, brutal child labor, destructive environmental practices ...

Charities are warning that without government support for the African country’s artisanal mining sector, private investment ...