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The Shadow Economy of Cobalt Mining
"I spent one of the things I really spent time on trip after trip was understanding and tracing the supply chain," he says. "The companies at the top rely on the ability to describe a impenetrable wall that exists between their supply and all this other activity" He asks: If you have hundreds of thousands of people digging out tens of thousands of tons of cobalt, where is it all going? It's not just being dug for sport,. It's not going to some other planet to their tech companies."