00:00Hand-dug misery powers your phone.
00:03Thousands of independent diggers descend into narrow hand-carved shafts across the soil of Kowesi.
00:10Miners carve vertical tunnels using rusty hand tools without wooden supports or safety gear.
00:17Sudden wall collapses bury workers alive before informal buyers haul the cobalt sacks away.
00:23Raw mineral brokers mix these unregulated stones directly into export shipments bound for global battery factories.
00:31Deep in artisanal mines, unstable earth frequently collapses around workers, extracting cobalt by hand.
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