Cobalt and the Pentagon in Central Africa

This 09.07.1980 report is central to the story of Pentagon intervention and covert war in Central Africa. Much of the world's cobalt reserves are in the Katanga Copper Belt running from Southeastern D.R. Congo into Zambia.

Cobalt in 1998, http://goo.gl/tGu2
US Strategic Cobalt Reserve Perilously Low, Pentagon Says, 1980, http://goo.gl/C6SR

Cobalt: Policy Options for a Strategic Mineral, 1982, http://goo.gl/5Hg0