![]() ![]() ![]() Other plaintiffs in the court documents say they worked at mines owned by Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, a major Chinese cobalt firm, which the lawsuit claims supplies Apple, Dell, and Microsoft and is likely to supply the other defendants. The court papers allege that cobalt from the Glencore-owned mines is sold to Umicore, a Brussels-based metal and mining trader, which then sells battery-grade cobalt to Apple, Google, Tesla, Microsoft and Dell. The families argue in the claim that their children were working illegally at mines owned by UK mining company Glencore. The lawsuit argues that Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla all aided and abetted the mining companies that profited from the labour of children who were forced to work in dangerous conditions – conditions that ultimately led to death and serious injury. The extraction of cobalt from DRC has been linked to human rights abuses, corruption, environmental destruction and child labour. Image courtesy of CNES/Airbus DS, produced by Earthrise. The pink tarps cover tunnels used for mining. By May 2019, Congo DongFang International Mining (a subsidiary of chinese company Huayou Cobalt) have built a mining site, with a walled perimeter and processing buildings (in blue). In the first picture, taken May 2016, there are just residential houses. Aerial view of the Kasulo neighborhood of Kolwezi. A sliding image comparing an aerial view of a mine in the Kasulo neighborhood of Kolwezi in May 2016 to May 2019.
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