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**Final Project Working Page** **Remember to put work you've created into your portfolio (Sahali Mahara!)** Final project participation and work worth 25% of course!!
 * Video due date: May 31st**
 * Website: ongoing development**

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Background Research: > "Conflict minerals are metals like gold and tin and elements like tantalum, which are used in computers and cell phones sold here in the United States." {I put a photo in the pages and files section entitled Child Mining DRC for I thought it may be useful as a slide in the video etc.} (Leah) > > [] Examples of videos we like: This video explains what a conflict mineral is, where it happens, how the process works, and what we can do to solve the issue so simply and effectively! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF-sJgcoY20 (Courtney)
 * What are conflict minerals? http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=5&hid=17&sid=9d1808ec-4eaf-435f-a3fc-e6d434b72b58%40sessionmgr11&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=rch&AN=6XN201006151010
 * Ms. LISA SHANNON (RAISE Hope for Congo): You have either public mines and militias come and collect taxes at the mines, or they mine them themselves, or they control locals and have them mine on their behalf. And then they export illegally, very cheaply. And then those minerals are smuggled out through countries like Rwanda and Uganda and eventually make their way into smelting plants, where they're mixed with minerals from other locations and then they end up in our tech products. -Haley
 * Objects that tungsten can be found in include: "X-ray tubes, light bulb filaments, welding electrodes, darts, fishing weights, golf clubs, fire retardant fabric coatings/dyes, ceramic pigments, etc." (paraphrased from article on Pages and Files entitled "tungsten Objects.pdf") -Leah http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=4cff2a59-d150-4c7b-9e32-8a24bd6b0381%40sessionmgr112&vid=1&hid=119&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=67734227 (mining information and interesting facts at the bottom.)
 * Where are conflict minerals usually found?  This map depicts mining sites for certain materials in the DRC. @http://clarknews.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/map-of-drcs-mineral-resources.jpg
 * Who is involved in the conflict? Groups involved in the conflict: the [|Congolese National Army], and various armed rebel groups, including the [|Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda] (FDLR) and the [|National Congress for the Defense of the People] (CNDP), a proxy Rwandan militia group. The looting of the Congo's natural resources is not limited to domestic actors; during the Congo Wars, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi particularly profited from the Congo's resources. - Courtney
 * What are the consequences of the conflict? The PDF within this link: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=be6c1dc3-dccb-4476-a7f6-d6491a005bd5%40sessionmgr11&vid=7&hid=11&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=rch&AN=65336899 answers many of the questions written here. The PDF is also located under our Pages and Files Section as "DRC Conflict Mineral." I hope this is helpful, and it has The Enough Project's ranking of companies in a chart format. I also have another link that describes some of the mineral situations in the Congo. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=be6c1dc3-dccb-4476-a7f6-d6491a005bd5%40sessionmgr11&vid=9&hid=11&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=67734227 (Leah)
 * What are some of the working conditions in the mines? http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=10&hid=119&sid=d5722143-b5b9-400d-a260-dde05547b9d5%40sessionmgr13&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=rch&AN=48367227 -Leah
 * What is being done by others right now to help end the use of conflict minerals? We have been talking about Apple in a negative light lately, but look at this! "Most of the world has paid little attention to the murder and rape that still dominates life in the DRC's eastern provinces. But U.S. electronics companies like HP, Intel, and Apple recently became deeply interested, thanks to a provision on "conflict minerals" that was slipped into a 2010 financial reform law, the Dodd-Frank Act." That quote is from this site.[] that describes the act aswell. SO theres an act called the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act andis a federal statute in the United States that was signed into law by President Obama on July 21. This article: describes what changes it has made to the issue of conflict minerals on the bottom of page 15. Way to go Obama! - Courtney <3
 * What can "you" do?

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