Coltan Traffic
Coltan and its influence on violence
First and foremost can be noticed that in the world there is always a reason by which big and powerful countries always fitgh because theirpurschasing power is so great which lead them to always want more and more power. Back in the days people could realize that big countries were having a lot of troubles because of soil, and was verycommon that other country decided to attach another to obtain a soil reserve.
With what have been mentioned previously I want to make a kind of quote referring to the coltan because nowadays coltanis starting to be the main interest of the biggest companies in the whole world, because as the coltan result to be a very good energy conductor and keeper, its being used now to be implemented inlittle devices as ipods, mobile phones, mp3, cameras etc. because of that important characteristic of the coltan, most of the electronic companies are looking for coltan implemented in their devices, toobtain a better performance of the products.
The 60% of coltan reserves are in the Congo, but as there is a poor place, big countries are taking advantage of that and they just pay a miserablesalary to all the people who work there, but big dealers of coltan obtain a very big profit because a little amount of it can reach the price of 60 to 100 hundred dollars. As any company is interest onhaving a bad impression in fornt of the customers, so all the companies lie when declare that they won’t buy even a kilo of coltan because what they want to make people believe is that they are worriedabout all the consequences that bring coltans extraction.
But its not true because big companies don’t matter about prople who die daily because of coltan, what they want is to keep a big amount ofcustomers, customers that result really blown away when they see how devices have been improved and modified.
Day by day a lot of people die because of coltan but that is something that is like...
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