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30th June 2010 - Link Blog

Conflict Minerals and Blood Tech. Capacitors are made from tantalum. Tantalum is extracted from coltan ore. 20% of the world’s supply of coltan is conflict metal from the Congo, and funds the world’s most vicious conflict.

Posted 30th June 2010 at 12:57 pm

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