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Thirst For Coltan Fueling African Conflict

Posted by timothy on from the thirst-for-coltan-would-be-a-great-movie-title dept.

MetaPhyzx writes "According to an article put forth by the Toward Freedom website, the metallic ore known as columbite-tantalite or coltan for short is fueling conflict in central Africa. The relevance to us who read news for geeks: Coltan is in quite a few consumer electronics; the article references the Sony Playstation series." As reader fahrvergnugen points out in the comments below, there's reason to more than doubt the currency of the claims in the above-linked article, as outlined in a post at Joystiq.

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  1. All hail by spydum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Coltan!

  2. It's SKYNET by QuebecNerd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't you get it, SKYNET has begun building it's Terminator army.

    Let me get naked and go back in time to fix that for you...

    1. Re:It's SKYNET by smooth+wombat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Let me get naked and go back in time to fix that for you...

      Based on the usual description of the male population of ./, I'd prefer you didn't.

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      We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower