Uranium mining in the Congo
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Uranium mining in the Congo has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Siddharth KaraAuthor and researcher on modern slavery, author of 'Cobalt Red' and 'The Zorg'
Kara relayed unverified accounts that Chinese mining companies have been shipping Congolese uranium home alongside copper and cobalt, explaining China's nuclear buildup.
“every one of these Chinese state-run mining companies in the same tractor trailer that's got the copper and the cobalt and the nickel, they've got uranium on it too”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2556 - Siddharth Kara (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 26:09
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- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
#2556 - Siddharth KaraThe Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 22, 2026 · 2 h 28 min
Siddharth Kara tells Joe Rogan about child and slave labor in Congo's cobalt mines and the slave ship Zorg that sparked abolition.