coltan

[Guest001]

Tantalum from the Congo is used in consumer electronics products such as cell phones, DVD players, video game systems and computers. Export of coltan from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to European and American markets has been cited by experts[2][3] as helping to finance the present-day conflict in the Congo, with the DanChurchAid agency asserting that “much of the finance sustaining the civil wars in Africa, especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is directly connected to coltan profits.”[4] An estimated 6.9 million people have died since 1998 in the war in the Congo[ci]

[Xx_jet_xX]

shouldnt they be running out of people to kill by now?

[MERMITE]

See Stomp you are full of mapp'in ideas

"M"

[Guest001]

Tantalum Wars "M"
You bet, that is my skill to offer, an imagination in the TWILIGHT ZONE ...eeeeoooooooarr!

[Guest001]

Originally Posted by Xx_jet_xX

shouldnt they be running out of people to kill by now?

Birth Rate exceeds death rate?
I mean it though, I really felt sad for the kids, wish I could stomp the adults.

[Mstenger404]

isn't there other places tantalum can be imported from? >.>

[Guest001]

In order of estimated supply level:
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Greenland, China, Mozambique, Canada, Australia, the United States, Finland, and Brazil.