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So will the NGOs now be asking us where we get our tin, just like they do for coltan (mineral containing tantalum and niobium)?
"Blood tin" anyone?
Or have I got the wrong Congo? There are two.
Bev
RIM
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Sent: Fri Nov 21 11:07:17 2008
Subject: [LF] no end to the environmental cost of lead-free solder
Small-scale miners search for cassiterite, better known as tin ore, in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. The country has one of the highest levels of
deposits in the world, and young men work in dangerous conditions to extract the
metal.
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