After the illicit coltan is relabeled and sent to legitimate smelters, it is processed and made into capacitors, and sold to electronics companies such as Apple, Samsung, IBM, Dell, Sony, Cisco, HP and a host of others.
The Mining of Coltan: Chances Are Your Cellphone Was Manufactured With African Blood
The Most Revolutionary Act 
See also:
“Half the Truth is a whole Lie! 20 Years of brazen Desinformation!” http://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/rwanda-half-of-the-truth-is-a-whole-lie-twenty-years-of-brazen-desinformation/
Regards
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Thanks for the link, Schluter. This post started out as a reblog of a post about the Congo Civil War, but the original post seems to have been taken down.
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Saw somewhere that Venezuela contains mega-quantities of coltan also. Adding that valuable Earth resource to Venezuela’s fossil fuel deposits illustrates the threat Venezuelans face.
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Wow, I had no idea, Jerry. Makes a lot of sense.
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