The electronics industry is one of the main destinations for eastern Congo's metals, which end up in mobile phones, laptops, and other consumer products. Tin is used as a solder in circuit boards; tantalum goes into capacitors, small components used to store electricity; tungsten is used in the vibrating function of mobile phones; gold is also used by the electronics industry - as a coating for ...
Congo-Kinshasa: Metals Mined in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Global Witness (London), 26 July 2013
The electronics industry is one of the main destinations for eastern Congo's metals, which end up in mobile phones, laptops, and other consumer products. Tin is used as a solder in circuit boards; tantalum goes into capacitors, small components used to store electricity; tungsten is used in the vibrating function of mobile phones; gold is also used by the electronics industry - as a coating for ...
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