Global Commodity Chains In The Congo

Nonetheless, certain minerals such as tungsten, tin and tantalum are needed to create smartphones, and oftentimes they were exported from DRC. “Roughly a quarter of the tantalum ore mined in the first decade of the twenty-first century came from the Congo, but coltan itself is a phenomenon specific to the Congo.” (Kinniburgh, 2014). In other words, without the resources from Congo, the market demand of smartphone could not be fulfilled. Only by the existence of global commodity chains―where commodities are created by linking a lot of places in gathering resources, alongside with the production and distribution of goods, the enormous usage of mobile phones would be impossible.
What is unfortunate is that over than 50% of the mines in the