BBC gains rare access to the mine powering mobile phones

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BBC News, Rubaya

Hassan Lali / BBC Two miners with their backs to the camera bend over as they dig in a pit at Rubaya mine in eastern DR Congo. The one in the left wears a red tank top and his colleague on the right wears a yellow sports shirt with numbers printed on the back. In the background the metal spade of another miner can be seen. — More than 10,000 people work at the Rubaya mine digging up coltan ore

M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control which is…

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