Cobalt and coltan extraction and supply competition

Demand for battery and data-centre metals is finally being converted into Congolese assets: a state mining champion under new leadership, a distressed cobalt producer rescued by an American buyer, exploration money flowing into lithium, copper exports to the United States multiplying, a reopened corridor to Zambian ports and a first domestic stock exchange. Export controls are treated here as a producer country learning to price what it owns.