Intel Leaders Travel to Africa to Track Responsibly Sourced Minerals

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A team from Intel's Responsible Minerals Program, as well as representatives of other tech firms, visit mineral-rich Rwanda in November 2019 as part of an industry effort to ensure a legal and ethical supply chain. Tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold mined in the Central African country are key components of silicon chips that run today's smartphones, laptops, servers and other high-tech gear. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation).

More than 10 years ago, Intel recognized that some of its mineral purchases — through a complex web of supply chain intermediaries — were unintentionally contributing to human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Armed guerilla factions in that country were exploiting forced labor, often abusing children and women, and engaging in multiple human rights violations — all in pursuit of illicit profits from the global mineral trade.
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