A drop of tin, a speck of gold. The tiniest trace of any so-called conflict mineral in a vast array of productseverything from buttons to cellphones to jet turbinesis now under the microscope of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
New SEC rules went into effect in January that will require about 6,000 publicly traded companies to report whether their products contain four conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where warlords are using proceeds from the mineral sales to fund a horrific campaign of murder, rape and torture.
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