Key points
- DeepGreen Metals trainee Glorie Baciyunjuze, responding to Launcher Captain Preben Hall, draws on her own experience witnessing conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she saw children used in land-based mineral mining.
- She says Congo’s land mining supply chain is not well regulated and that many lives have been lost there.
- She contrasts this with the ocean mineral collection operation, which she says has a controlled supply chain with no child labor.
- She says more still needs to be done to address regulation of land-based mining supply chains.
