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🇨🇩Small-Scale Mining, Large-Scale Death [ Cost of Negligence ] 🌟More than forty people died in one morning at a minein DRC's Lualaba province in what is described as either a landslide or a conflict with armed security guards. The site is located in sothern DRC and is run on a semi industrial licence with artisanal miners, who are on paper supervised by the Congolese artisanal mining watchdog SAEMAPE, working alongside CHEMAF - a copper-cobalt enterprise owned by Dubai-headquartered Shalina Resources. ➡️ Such a large number of victims is explained by the fact that the industrial miners allowed the artisanal miners only on weekends, which created a large influx of people. Three days earlier in the same province, the state cobalt company EGC was boasting of its first 1,000 tonnes of traceable artisanal cobalt. Officials presented this as proof that the country finally controls artisanal mining and offers miners safe, dignified work. This is still the mining system in Congo. On the front stage stand big operators, state companies and new labels - behind that curtain the ore comes from holes, filled with people who accept lethal risk for daily cash. #CostOfNegligence Devils Below