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[https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-expected-sign-deep-sea-mining-executive-order-thursday-sources-2025-04-24/ by Ernest Scheyder and Jarrett Renshaw 24/4/25 Reuters] | [https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-expected-sign-deep-sea-mining-executive-order-thursday-sources-2025-04-24/ by Ernest Scheyder and Jarrett Renshaw 24/4/25 Reuters] | ||
April 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, marking his latest attempt to boost U.S. access to nickel, copper and other critical minerals used widely across the economy. | April 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, marking his latest attempt to boost U.S. access to nickel, copper and other critical minerals used widely across the economy. | ||
=====How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara by Terry Gross 1/2/23 npr] | |||
Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers laboring in slave-like conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | |||
