BBCNEWS Newsday November 24, 2021 23:19:00
Suited for batteries in particular. and it's only recently now, with our drive towards decarbonisation, where all of a sudden now, it is a critical commodity. every car manufacturer will want this metal. the biggest electric car maker is tesla. it has agreed to buy up to 6,000 tonnes of cobalt a year from kolwezi. tesla's deal is with glencore, a mining company that runs some of the big mechanised mines. now glencore wants to evict the artisanal miners from this site. translation: l have - about 15,000 people here - but they will be left with no work. we have children, wives, families. we can'...