Nowadays, it is the mobile terminals are so popular with various sizes ranging from tabloid to smartphone. Many mineralsare in great demand because they are the essential to the opponents of those popular electronics. “Conflict minerals”, mostly in the eastern provinces ofthe Democratic Republic of the Congo, are mined in conditions of armed conflictand human rights abuses, located from populated areas in remote and dangerous regions. Blood Diamonds filmed by Leonardo DiCaprio, can well exemplify the phenomenon of the mining conditions in some African district.
Those minerals would pass through the hands of numerous middlemen as they are shipped out of Congo, through neighboring countries such as Rwanda or Burundi, to East Asian processing plants.
The US and the Securities and ExchangeCommission (SEC) passed a set of strict rules which require manufacturers toreport from where they get its tantalum, tin, gold or tungsten in an attempt curb the import of tainted minerals. However, there are critics who hold that the root of the conflict is left out by the regulations.
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