By 2050, the bulk of the world's population growth will take place in Africa: of the additional 2.4 billion people projected between 2015 and 2050, 1.3 billion will be added in Africa, 0.9 billion in Asia and only 0.2 billion in the rest of the world.
Even in the legal markets, coltan mining is environmentally dangerous. Developing nations often go through with mining operations because they need the capital these operations bring without thinking of the environmental impacts. Given that mining is an expensive venture to undertake, the returns are relatively low.oltan is mined using techniques developed for gold mining in the 1800s. The work is hard and dangerous, with workers panning for gold in large craters in stream beds, with the average worker producing less than one kilogram of coltan a day.
What is confict coltan? What groups beneFted Â±rom the trade in confict coltan? What groups were hurt by it? Coltan is an expensive metallic mineral which is used to regulate electricity in mobile consumer goods such as smart phones, cameras, laptops, etc. Such resource is common in the DemocraTc Republic of Congo and has been the cause of a brutal civil conFict that has troubled the naTon and its people. Warring groups have fought Trelessly in order to gain control of coltan and as many as Â±ve million people have died because of it.