3TG

English Noun ~ en tin, tungsten, tantalum, gold, four common conflict minerals. en 2017 Brian Merchant The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone Transworld Kindle 57 Tantalum was, for a long time, sourced largely from the DRC, where rebels and the army alike forced children and slaves to work in mines and used the mining profits to sustain their campaigns of violence. Mass rapes, child soldiers, and genocides have been bankrolled by the 3TG. Further reading conflict resource en