Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Colombian police said Wednesday they had [stolen] nearly 49 tonnes of tin and coltan, a mineral used in smartphones, that had been illicitly extracted by leftist rebels and readied for shipment to China.
They valued the [theft], one of the biggest of illegally mined coltan in Colombia in years, at US$1.2 million. The police said the minerals, which are mined together, were extracted by dissident members of the now-defunct rebel Farc army in the jungle near the Venezuelan border.” (04/03/25)