Gold Addiction Fuels Brutal Congo War VIDEO This Sunday quot60 Minutesquot will present an investigation into how the global gold industry is helping fuel violence and chaos in the Congo CBS reporter Scott Pelleys investigation found that conflict in the region was often to do with different militias seeking control over valuable natural resources
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Nov 29 2009nbsp018332Summary Scott Pelley reports on Congos gold war including the cost of human lifeIn a doublelength segment Lara Logan reports on Robert Ballard who discovered the Titanic the Bismarck and the PT 109 Lara now takes 60 Minutes cameras to his latest discovery located 1500 feet down in the Aegean Sea off TurkeyAndy Rooneys essay is on his Scott Pelley reports on Congos gold war
See MoreNov 30 2009nbsp018332Congos Gold 60 Minutes Report human rights abuses linked to ruthless efforts by armed groups and multinational companies to control and profit from gold mining areas in northeastern Congo
See MoreAfter watching the 60 Minutes program I was left a little confused and lost too I could not believe that quotgoldquot was the source of conflicts in eastern Congo I had never heard about the gold conflict I thought 60 Minutes was trying to dumbdown the conflict to make it comparable to the past quotblood diamondquot conflicts of West Africa I believe coltan is more comparable to diamond both in
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See MoreJun 25 2020nbsp018332Civil society groups on Thursday called on the president and prime minister to deny Canadalisted junior miner AJN Resources approval for it to buy five projects from Democratic Republic of Congo
See MoreDec 16 2019nbsp018332image caption Artisanal mining is common in DR Congo as people do it as a means to make a DR Congo produces 60 of the worlds supply of cobalt The precious metal sparking a new gold
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See MoreNovember 29 2009 60 Minutes the Sunday night national news magazine on the CBSTV network aired a segment focusing on the issue of illegal artisanal gold originating from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo eDRC We abhor the terrible mining practices taking place in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
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See More60 Minutes Takes On Congos Conflict Minerals Contd 11302009 0157 pm ET Updated Dec 06 2017 In a hardhitting segment last night 60 Minutes highlighted the role of gold in fueling Congos deadly war in which hundreds of thousands of women have been raped and over 5 million people have died
See MoreMedia for Liberty Award Honors 60 Minutes Congo Gold Investigative Journalism Puts Spotlight on Deadly Gold Mining Trade in Central Africa News provided by Liberty Media Corporation Mar
See MoreNov 30 2009nbsp018332Watch CBS News Videos Online Watch CBS News Videos Online In a hardhitting segment last night 60 Minutes highlighted the role of gold in fueling Congos deadly war in which hundreds of thousands of women have been raped and over 5 million people have died In addition to highlighting the hidden cost of the gold and other conflict minerals used in our jewelry cell phones
See MoreDec 03 2009nbsp018332In the 60 Minutes episode Congos Gold Pelley journeyed into the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC to look into the unending cycle of violence that has gripped this mineralrich country since the 90s The Worlds Deadliest War
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See MoreJun 19 2020nbsp018332The panel said it found that North and South Kivu in eastern Congo and Ituri province in the northeast reported official production totaling just over 60 kilograms of surfacemined gold in 2019
See MoreDec 11 2009nbsp018332On 29 November 2009 the US television news show 60 Minutes aired a segment called Congo Gold This segment purported to expose the link between gold and war in Congo but there were three major problems with the 60 Minutes story that merit attention and discussion 1 Although the 60 Minutes story focuses on current conflict in South Kivu most of the footage used in the story is of
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See MoreJun 20 2020nbsp018332The panel said it found that North and South Kivu in eastern Congo and Ituri province in the northeast reported official production totaling just over 60 kilograms of surfacemined gold in 2019
See MoreBanro dangling Congo gold mine to best bidder Cecilia Jamasmie Fresh attacks however including the kidnapping of four employees in July disrupted mining activities once again
See MoreJun 19 2020nbsp018332Some thoughts on last nights Gold and Congo on 60 Minutes which can be viewed here transcript here First off while the story was damaging and may cost the industry a few sales this Christmas the high price of gold will probably hurt the trade more this holiday than 60 Minutes will
See MoreJun 18 2020nbsp018332the cbs newsmagazine 60 minutes ii recently aired another story on conflict diamonds and again suggested that consumers who buy diamonds are unwittingly financing brutal wars in africa the bulk of the story focused on new mines in canada and included interviews with prospectors and shots of ekati the first mine in the northwest territories
See More60 Minutes Congo Gold More than 5 million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo in wars funded by the dirty gold industry Though blood diamonds have been banned for years quotblood
See MoreJul 06 2020nbsp018332Barrick Golds Kibali gold mining joint venture in Democratic Republic of Congo will be able to get 500 million out of the country very soon CEO Mark Bristow told Reuters on Monday
See MoreAug 20 2020nbsp018332The Torontobased gold giant operates in 13 countries including Argentina Canada Chile C244te dIvoire Democratic Republic of the Congo
See MoreNamoya openpit gold mine is located in the Maniema Province of Democratic Republic of the Congo The mine is situated at the southwestern end of the 210kmlong TwangizaNamoya gold belt and is owned by Banro Corporation Banro First gold from the Namoya mine was poured in December 2013 while commercial production began in January 2016
See MoreJun 25 2020nbsp018332Under the deal AJN Resources Congo unit would acquire stakes of between 30 and 35 in five gold projects in eastern Congo from stateowned gold company Soci233t233 Mini232re de KiloMoto SOKIMO
See MoreAug 18 2012nbsp018332About 15 million to 20 million people labour in artisanal gold mining alone in 60 countries worldwide Their incomes range from perhaps a dollar a day to
See MoreJun 10 2020nbsp018332New investments in the mining sector led to a significant increase in production from 2010 to 2014 while oil production remained relatively stable Based on EITI reporting cobalt coltan and gold production increased significantly from 2014 to 2015 However the mining sector in general experienced a slowdown of production and exportation in
See MoreIn subSaharan Africa a video at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show announces there is war that feeds off of global demand for electronics The place is the DRCthe Democratic Republic of the Congo The region is ground zero for conflict minerals Tech giants including Intel and Apple are now working with NGOs to clean up their supply chains and help promote peace in the region
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