Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World’s Deadliest Place

Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World’s Deadliest Place

Peter H. Eichstaedt
Role: Author

In neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the deadliest places on earth, Eichstaedt’s Consuming the Congo reveals how the rapacious mining of coltan, a mineral vital to the high-tech industry, has savaged the land and forced destitute miners to toil in miserable and deadly dangerous conditions.

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