The next frontier of conflict minerals: South America

Given its past leadership limiting blood diamonds, Canada can help now in its own backyard.

Former NDP MP Paul Dewar introduced a bill, defeated at second reading in the last Parliament, to put tighter controls on conflict minerals from the Great Lakes region in Africa used to produce smartphones and laptops. Trade in conflict minerals appears to have now emerged in Venezuela.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BENJAMIN MUSAMPA

May 25, 2016

In the last decade, columbite-tantalite (coltan) has been a source of global controversy as a strategic resource illegally exported from conflict-ridden Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring countries, relabelled, and sold to major high-tech manufacturers around the world. A similar trend is ...

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