cobalt

(Newser) - Three Americans originally sentenced to death for a failed coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo have returned to US soil. The men saw those death sentences commuted to life imprisonment last week as Congo angles to ink a minerals deal with the US that would see it get...

(Newser) - As the planet's need for lithium—or, more specifically, lithium-ion batteries—continues to swell, so too does the need for metals needed to make those batteries. Cobalt is one of them. As Michael Holtz explains in a lengthy piece for the Atlantic , a White House report issued in June...

(Newser) - For the last four decades, cobalt mining has been almost non-existent in the US. That's changing now with what the BBC labels a rush for the precious metal recently named as critical to the US economy. With increases in price and demand for the silver-blue mineral—used in everything...