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Demand for PlayStation 2 helped fuel African PlayStation War

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2008-07-11 13:05:25 by Isaac C. in PSP Updates
...coltan, which is needed to make the element Tantalum. Tantalum is used to make many kinds of technology, from cell phones to laptops. It is mostly desired for its capacity to withstand extreme heat, and so is used in producing capacitors In today's hunger for technology, demand for coltan became not unlike oil. The demand is just as high,...
 
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Report Claims PS2's Need for a Certain Metal Helped Fuel a War

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2008-07-11 23:35:38 by Chris in Gaming Today
...coltan has helped encourage Rwandan troops to use prisoners-of-war and children to mine for the rare ore. If you think this sounds like Blood Diamond, youre not alone Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms, said British politician Oona King Just what...
 
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Conflict in Africa dubbed 'The PlayStation war'

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2008-07-12 04:48:00 by HASH0x8472220 in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
...coltan. Coltan can be refined to a powder called tantalum, which is then used in the manufacturing of several electronic products, including the PlayStation. The Congo is not the only place the coltan can be found, but it has become a major player in the Democratic Republic of the Congos economy. So much so, that the country, its neighbors,...
 
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Report claims Sony has bloody control pads

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2008-07-14 02:22:06 by Ricardo Bilton in That VideoGame Blog
...coltan. Coltan, short for Columbite-tantalite, is a mined material through which the elements niobium and tantalum can be extracted, with the latter of the two being essential to a wide variety of electronics. Used for its ability to withstand extreme heat, tantalum is a much-sought commodity among electronics manufacturers For these reasons,...
 
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PlayStation 2 travels through time to kill children

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2008-07-25 00:00:00 by Christopher Grant in Joystiq
...coltan, which is later refined into tantalum, a heat-resistant element that (according to a 2001 New York Times story on this very same issue) "can be found inside almost every laptop, pager, personal digital assistant and cell phone So how is it that a commonly used material that briefly made headlines in 2001 because of its association...
 
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