Blood Minerals

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Mobile Phone Companies and Blood Minerals in Congo Africa



Introduction

This essay has focused on the serious concern of blood minerals that are being used brutally by the mobile phone companies. The main emphasis of this essay is on the emergence and continuous innovations that are coming along with technological advancements. With the use of technologically advanced products such as cell phones, no one even bother to think that there can be something wrong or unethical with such useful devices and high technology such as "smart" mobile or portable generation. We prefer to think that there is nothing wrong, that merely improve our communication and make our life easier. But as in many other things, it is important to look beyond the appearance and discover a part of these technologies that is neither beautiful nor brilliant that is required to be taken under serious consideration (Baregu, 2002, pp. 13-25). This essay is an effort towards the responsible use of new technologies to help people make informed decisions with the rest of the planet, with animals and with literally millions of people who do not enjoy the benefits of these advances, but basically only pay costs.

The matter of the fact is how these mobile phone companies are manipulating minerals in the use of cell phone technology more advanced and sleek. The use of coltan by the mobile phone companies has reached at its extreme and the manufacturers do not even take it serious that they are actually playing with the blood minerals (Eichstaedt, 2011, pp. n.d.). They have been obtaining this material from Congo. What actually is coltan and how it has been used by the mobile phone companies is highlighted in the essay. However the response of the mobile phone companies in this regard has also been discussed.

Discussion

Blood minerals are minerals that are obtained by exploiting people who work in bondage for these precious minerals that finance many wars and many massacres. One of these minerals is coltan, coltan is obtained in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this mineral is used primarily for the manufacture of phones but also other minerals that are obtained after spreading much blood. Many companies buy coltan in the Congo because it is cheaper, but not only is the only place there is, since there are many sites where it is produced, although slightly more expensive.

The word is a contraction of coltan columbite and tantalite. Coltan is a metallic black material used in the manufacture of all kinds of mobile devices (computers, phones, etc.). Coltan is the element that has allowed reducing the size of our electronic devices, from laptops to mobile phones, flat screens through our stylish plasma TVs or the small size of digital cameras or GPS that we in our cars. But how many know that coltan is the heart of all of them. While considering blood technologies, there is neither a way to express demagoguery nor is the complaint of the suffering of thousands of human beings that ...