However the lawsuit describes a supply chain whereby the mining companies which own and operate the African work sites sell the cobalt to European third parties.

The third parties then sell it on to the tech giants in the US, it is alleged.

Among the children’s injuries is one boy who had his legs crushed while working in Huayou Cobalt, a mine which the lawsuit claims sells cobalt to Apple and Microsoft.  

— Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7797489/amp/Apple-Google-Tesla-Microsoft-sued-aiding-abetting-child-mining-Congo.html