William Clowes for Bloomberg's Africa newsletter:
The Katanga region of southeastern Congo is the source of most of the world’s cobalt and more copper than any country other than Chile. The geology, though, has created an operating environment that can at times resemble something out of a dystopian Mad Max movie.
The latest episode is the experience of a Eurasian Resources Group unit called Metalkol.
Intruders have hijacked a large part of its deposit and started to exploit the site on a near-industrial scale.