{"id":15316,"date":"2021-07-17T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=15316"},"modified":"2021-07-17T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T14:00:13","slug":"cobalt-blues-congolese-miners-and-chinas-role-in-improving-their-conditions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=15316","title":{"rendered":"Cobalt blues: Congolese miners, and China\u2019s role in improving their conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of residents of this resource-rich central African nation, including children, toil and even fight to extract metals like cobalt \u2013 an essential component for making lithium-ion batteries that power smartphones, laptops and electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>The southern DRC region of Katanga holds the country\u2019s largest cobalt reserves; thousands of small-scale mining operators, or \u201cartisanal miners\u201d, dig each day for the buried treasure \u2013 an extremely risky process,\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3141508\/cobalt-blues-congolese-miners-and-chinas-role-improving-their?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of residents of this resource-rich central African nation, including children, toil and even fight to extract metals&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}