Africa-Blood minerals- who is to blame for blood minerals?
so to start you off blood minerals are very valuable minerals that are found in your phones,mp3 players and all technology. They are found in africa well mined there at least. its a big problem because it can start a war there. a company in africa makes the blood minerals thier called NAM.
Africa are to blame for conflict minerals because the city's in it mine and sell the valuable minerals.
according to warchild, when investigating conflict mineral in a, " vast array of small electronic vast array of small electronic devices, especially in mobile phones, laptops computers , pager, other electronic devices." This shows that blood minerals are in your electronics if you knew or not. The website of slate had an article discussing that cellphones having blood minerals," N.A.M and the government is whether consumers will know the potentially blood-soaked origins of the product they use everyday and who gets to craft rules for multination corporations-Congress or the business. iAn investigation of war over blood minerals reports "Coltan is the informal name for Columbine-Taliesin, a dull black mineral."It means the mineral is causing war.A study of technology helps fund kids in Africa shows. " you see diamonds aren't the only minerals at the heart of violent conflicts in sub Saharan Africa ." The study shows that diamonds aren't the only minerals the fund kids.In article 2 it says that ' democratic republic of Congo and surrounding countries including Rwanda where the mineral trade has fueled bloody conflicts. So it shows the countries the trade them.
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