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Congo has become a top supplier of cobalt and you estimate about 40,000 people under 18 are involved in mining it there. Is that happening at the big industrial mines there? Our contention is that some percentage of the cobalt – it could be 20% or 25% but a significant amount of the cobalt coming out of Congo – is being mined in these informal sites.