Though Chinese mining companies, both private and state-owned, control vast cobalt deposits in the DRC, our research concluded that the DRC can exert significant influence over the wider industry.

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In addition, the DRC regulator has introduced stricter regulations for the domestic cobalt industry, prohibiting the mixing of cobalt from artisanal sources with that from industrial mining.