How To Use Coltan In A Sentence
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The lure of profit from gold and diamonds, as well as from minerals such as coltan, which is used to make mobile phones, have turned eastern Congo into a battlefield.
The Guardian World News
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Coltan is a contraction of colombo tantalite, an excellent conductor that is exceptionally resistant to heat and cold and valuable as a coat for electronic components in mobile phones.
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Niobium and tantalum— coltan is short for columbite-tantalite.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the cell phone industry booming, the park's resources and wildlife are under massive strain from miners seeking colombo-tantalite, also known as coltan or tantalum.
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Overall, Congo has over half the world's cobalt, one-third of its diamonds, and three-fourths of its vital columbite-tantalite or "coltan," essential for computer chips, circuit boards, mobile phones, laptops, and other electronic devices.
Printing: Reviewing F. William Engdahl's "Full Spectrum Dominance:" Part II
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There is gold, copper, diamonds, uranium and tantalum, known as coltan, which is used in electronic devices such as cellphones and computers.
APA
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Sixty to 70% of the coltan exported from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations reported in 2002, has been mined "under the direct surveillance" of the Rwandan army.
Blair, Conflict Diamonds & The Rape of The Congo
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The pending bills in the Senate and House would force companies to determine and disclose whether coltan, tin, gold, and wolframite used in their products originated in war-torn areas of the Congo, information that the U.S. government would then make public.
Human Rights First: Controlling enablers in the conflict mineral trade
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Last year, the rocketing demand for high-tech goods sent coltan prices zooming upwards to 146 per pound.
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Fifteen existing villages of shifting cultivators, and mining settlements for gold, cassiterite and coltan were located in the west section of the Park, though neither they nor the indigenous pygmies were consulted when it was created; and several villages in the buffer zone, where the boundary had never been defined, were sources of conflict.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
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But cell phones also include coltan, a mineral extracted in the deep forests of Congo in central Africa, home to the world's endangered lowland gorillas.
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Which two metals are extracted from the metallic ore, coltan?
Times, Sunday Times
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Coltan is a vital ingredient in smart phones and games consoles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite 10 years of United Nations reporting about vicious violence connected with gold, tin, coltan and wolframite, many international refining and trading companies insist, implicitly or explicitly, that their due diligence need not extend to the origins of these minerals.
Human Rights First: Controlling enablers in the conflict mineral trade
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Building on the work of a coalition of a dozen major humanitarian organizations and industry pioneers, the bill establishes a new mechanism that will limit the ability of armed groups to profit from the illicit mining and sale of cassiterite, coltan, and wolframite and other "conflict minerals.
Rep. Howard L. Berman: Why We Should Care About the Congo
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On April 23rd, Republican senator Sam Brownback introduced the Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009, cosponsored by senators Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin, which would require American companies mining coltan, cassiterite, and wolframite to report annually to the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency that regulates American financial markets, to disclose the country of origin of the minerals to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Global Voices in English » New bill to increase oversight of American mining companies in DRC
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Among these riches is coltan - columbite tantalite - a mineral highly prized for its use in a number of consumer electronic products, among other things.
Iara Lee: Blood Gadgetry -- Why I am Going to the Congo
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Like the activists who lobbied for the legislation, Dodd-Frank assumes that minerals such as gold, wolframite, coltan and tin, which are extracted from areas under the control of armed groups, drive the conflict, and therefore, curbing the trade would bring peace to the region.
Mvemba Dizolele: Conflict Minerals in the Congo: Let's Be Frank About Dodd-Frank
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Mobile phones contain a mineral called coltan which is used in the electrical capacitors.
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The Congo has almost unparalleled mineral riches, including gold, uranium, the world's biggest industrial diamond deposits, and 80 percent of world reserves in a mineral called coltan, which is crucial to the manufacture of mobile telephones.
Diamond in the Rough
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There's a crucial element in the manufacture of cell phones, laptops and the like called columbite-tantalite (or coltan).
Latest Articles
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They hope to find coltan, a rare metal used in the production of mobile phones and computers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Congo has diamonds, gold, copper, cobalt, cassiterite (tin ore) and coltan as well as timber, coffee and oil, little of which has benefited the Congolese, since the brutal rule of Belgium during colonial times.
Evelyn Leopold: Congo Massacres: First Revenge, Then Blood Money
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As well as gold and diamonds, the region is a source of the rare mineral coltan used in mobile phones.
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The most valuable loot is coltan, which is used to make the metal in our mobile phones and games consoles and laptops.
Johann Hari: We Are Not Being Told The Truth About Libya
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Coltan is the industrial name for columbitetantalite.
Times, Sunday Times
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On April 23rd, Republican senator Sam Brownback introduced the Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009, cosponsored by senators Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin, which would require American companies mining coltan, cassiterite, and wolframite to report annually to the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency that regulates American financial markets, to disclose the country of origin of the minerals to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Global Voices in English » New bill to increase oversight of American mining companies in DRC
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Besides gold and diamonds, the area is rich in copper, uranium, palladium and cobalt, as well as coltan ore.
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Katanga is estimated to hold up to 75 per cent of the world's coltan reserves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Below centre: a miner reveals his yield: a few tiny pieces of rock he hopes are coltan.
Times, Sunday Times
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The massive demand for coltan is credited with fueling the Second Congo War of 1998-2002.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Congo is one of the world's greatest sources of the mineral coltan.
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The mineral in question is known as coltan, which is actually African slang for ore that contains tantalum, a metal prized for electronics use because of its resistance to corrosion and heat.
BusinessWeek.com --
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In Congo, a new report into the exploitation of diamonds, gold and the rare ore, coltan, which is used in mobile phones, is due to be published soon.
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With the cell phone industry booming, the park's resources and wildlife are under massive strain from miners seeking colombo-tantalite, also known as coltan or tantalum.
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The global coltan price has collapsed, so now they focus hungrily on cassiterite, which is used to make tin cans and other consumer disposables.
Information Liberation
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Congo is awash with gold, diamonds and metals such as cassiterite and coltan used to weld small pieces together in electronics.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Furthermore, in September 2009 it formed a regional steering committee charged with implementing plans that will allow member states to act in concert against illegal exploitation of natural resources and to establish a regional certification system for gold, tin, coltan, and wolframite.
Human Rights First: Controlling enablers in the conflict mineral trade
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The massive demand for coltan is credited with fueling the
Why you so obsessed with the congo, jen?
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo miners seeking the highly prized mineral tantalite, or coltan, have been pouring waste into the Biega national park and Okapi wildlife reserve.
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It also has large deposits of tin, gold, coltan and uranium.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thousands of Grauer's mountain gorillas, chimpanzees and elephants have been slaughtered for food by illegal miners searching for coltan, a mineral containing metals like tantalum and niobium, used in cellphones and computers.
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The one where former commanders of 12 year boys in prom dresses who huff glue before killing people are promoted to general with salary, UN backing, and their own coltan mine?
Matthew Yglesias » Good News in Congo?
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Coltan is a contraction of columbium and tantalum; it's found in 3 billion year old mud and without it much of our modern technology could not be made.
