Bogotá, April 2, 2025 (AFP) - Colombia seizes 54 tons of China-bound smartphone mineral

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2025-04-02

Colombian police said Wednesday they had seized 54 tons of tin and coltan, a mineral used in smartphones, that had been illicitly extracted by leftist rebels and readied for shipment to China. They valued the seizure, one of the biggest of illegally mined coltan in Colombia in years, at $1.2 million. The police said the minerals, which are mined together, were extracted by dissident members of the now-defunct rebel FARC army in the jungle near th......

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