This was tough, but required reading - incredibly eye opening, but at the same time leaves me feeling helpless to do anything - short of stopping using anything electrical or with batteries.

I will however, when the time comes to upgrade to an EV, do much more thorough research on how and where the batteries came from. This is even though the moral of the story here seems to be that it will never be untainted, hopefully one day someone sets up better infrastructure for the Artisanal miners...one day...