The Human Cost of Lithium: Nigeria’s Child Miners And Global Rush For White Gold | Firstpost Africa
The Human Cost of Lithium: Nigeria’s Child Miners And Global Rush For White Gold | Firstpost Africa
The global demand for lithium, driven by its use in batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage, has created a unique frontier of the mining industry in Nigeria, but with a stark cost. The cost is the exploitation of Nigeria's poorest and most vulnerable: its children. The work of these children feeds the stock of Chinese businesses, who dominate Nigeria’s loosely regulated extractive industry. The industry is accused of illegal mining and abuses such as exploitative labour practices in their supply chains. China, the dominant force in the global supply chains for renewable energy, has a controversial role in Nigeria’s mining sector. Chinese nationals and companies remain in the spotlight for environmentally damaging practices, exploitative labour and illegal mining.
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