Mountain of strategic metals stranded in DR Congo begins to shift
A mountain of copper and cobalt worth up to $2 billion is piled up in DR Congo, symbolising the wildly volatile market for metals touted as crucial to the green energy revolution. As many as 13,000 tonnes of cobalt powder are thought to be hoarded in the Chinese-owned Tenke Fungurume mine - equivalent to seven percent of the world's production last year. It was stuck for over nine month