About three-fourths of world's cobalt, a metal required for the manufacture of batteries for electric motor vehicles, is produced by
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Answer: C. The Democratic Republic of the Congo produces about 70 to 75 percent of the world's cobalt, mostly from its southern copper belt.
Watch for: Argentina appears in battery-metal news because of lithium, which is a different metal.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because Argentina is known for lithium, not cobalt.
- B. Wrong because Botswana is known for diamonds.
- D. Wrong because Kazakhstan is a major uranium producer, not the top cobalt producer.
Source to check: US Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023 (Cobalt)
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