Intel Corp.’s chips contain tantalum, gold, tin and tungsten — all made from minerals that can be mined from war-torn parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Carolyn Duran’s job is to make sure they aren’t.
For the past five years, Duran and her team have confronted companies that produce the metals to find out whether they use ore from mines controlled by militias in the central African nation. The effort is aimed at starving the gangs of revenue, and it has involved trekking to 21 countries and visiting 86 companies that turn ore into metal.
Along the way, Duran says, her staff has been met with indifference, foot dragging and outright resistance — underscoring the thorny process of excluding ore that has passed through the hands of the DRC’s militias
via Business Week
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