coltan
Noun
Meaning
a valuable black mineral combining niobite and tantalite; used in cell phones and computer chips
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However it is true, as has frequently been observed, that the increase is also because of the fraudulent re-export of Congolese coltan.
Ethnic rivalries were made worse because of economic interests and there was lots of looting and smuggling of coltan.
Recorded coltan production has soared from 147 tonnes in 1999 to 1,300 tonnes in 2001, and coltan was the country's biggest single export earner in 2001.