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on the best of days, but in 2018 he said Tesla's next generation of batteries would contain no cobalt.explained how much effort the company had gone through recently to source ethical cobalt from the DRC.
A week later, the Financial Times reported global mining giant Glencore, which has operations in Australia, had signed a deal with Tesla to supply cobalt from its mines in the DRC to Tesla's new Shanghai Gigafactory and Berlin plant. It just said the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo recognised "the issue of child labour" and "it is expected that by 2025 child labour will be eliminated from the mines"."Indigenous communities that have lived in the Andean region of Chile, Bolivia and Argentina for centuries must contend with miners for access to communal land and water," it said.
"In Chile's Salar de Atacama, lithium and other mining activities consumed 65 per cent of the region's water. That is having a big impact on local farmers — who grow quinoa and herd llamas — in an area where some communities already must get water driven in from elsewhere."The dirty truth about mining
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