Adon Kalenga works seven days a week collecting minerals from the ground with his bare hands.He is 13 years old and lives in Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sometimes he sleeps in the streets; other nights he spends in an orphanage.
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China Lets Child Workers Die Digging in Congo Mines for Copper
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Submitted by AC89 on Wed, 2008-07-23 20:51. | Tags: business | child labor | china | cobalt | Congo | copper | Katanga | water pollution
PM Recovery Metal & Catalyst Recycling Put Environmental Sustainability First
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Since 1978, PM Recovery, Inc. has been a leading direct processor and full-service logistics solution for industrial scrap metals recycling, specializing in vanadium, cobalt, tungsten carbide, nickel and molybdenum, and spent catalyst recycling. They only keep getting better at what they do...
Submitted by GreenDimesandNickels on Mon, 2008-03-31 18:01. | Tags: business | cobalt | direct processor | industrial recycling | mark spano | metal recycling | molybdenum | nickel | pmrecovery | pmrecovery.com | scrap metal | spent catalyst | tungsten carbide | vanadium