They possess reserves of oil, gas, coal, gold, silver, diamonds, bauxite, cobalt, uranium, coltan and many more.
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Apart from gold, they illicitly sell cassiterite (used in laptops), coltan (mobile phones) and wolframite (light bulbs).
Coltan is the shortened name of the ore, columbo-tantalite, from which the tantalum to make capacitors is extracted.
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Rwandan officers are doing nicely out of looting Congolese diamonds, ivory and coltan, a mineral used in mobile telephones, and have no wish to stop.
The oxide (which comes from an ore called coltan) is converted to a fluoride using hydrofluoric acid, and the fluoride is then reduced with liquid sodium.
Regional analysts say the international demand for coltan is one of the driving forces behind the conflict, and the presence of rival militias in the country.
There were those like myself, who understood the industry, who pointed out that there are only a handful of factories that can process coltan into tantalum.
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Much of the violence has been financed with profits from the mining of metals such as tin, coltan, tantalum and gold - all used in electronic appliances.
Like many Congolese here, Mr Dishuishe is convinced Europeans are abetting Rwanda's illegal mining in DR Congo, including for coltan, a mineral vital to the electronics industry.
Indeed, I pointed out when he idea was first being discussed that there are only 5 or 6 plants globally capable to turning the mineral, coltan, into tantalum.
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Coltan is an effective capacitor found in electronics.
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We also have the ability to check where a particular consignment of coltan comes from: we have a database of the residual elements typical of each known mine and can thus check material, as with a fingerprint.
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No, coltan is not an effective capacitor.
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Until 2011, Goma was a regional trading center for minerals such as tin, coltan and tantalum, but an escalation in violence as well as new U.S. regulations restricting conflict minerals from the global supply chain have stalled the trade.
Until 2011, Goma was a regional trading center for minerals such as tin, coltan and tantlume but an escalation in violence as well as new U.S. regulations restricting conflict minerals from the global supply chain have stalled the trade.
Its report, released in mid-April, is extraordinarily detailed, naming Major-General Salim Saleh, the brother of Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, among the senior Ugandan and Rwandan commanders whom it accuses of stealing diamonds, gold, coltan (a mineral), timber and ivory.
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