{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Mining Insider","title":"Congo Claws Back the Cobalt, Mojtaba in Hiding, Vedanta's American Copper Play, and South32's Electric Fleet","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4b13ef16\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":616,"description":"The DRC government confirms it has clawed back unused H1 2026 cobalt export quotas after the ARECOMS customs platform blockage prevented producers from registering shipments — putting $1.1 billion in allocations at risk for CMOC, Glencore, Eurasian Resources Group, and Huayou Cobalt. Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is absent from his father's state funeral amid Israeli assassination fears, deepening succession uncertainty ahead of resumed US-Iran talks after July 9. Vedanta launches CopperTech Metals Inc., a US-domiciled company to own and operate Konkola Copper Mines in Zambia for American copper security. And South32 places Sandvik's largest-ever battery-electric vehicle order for its Hermosa critical minerals project in Arizona.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tM0qY1Awzyjj0ffY02GbzMv5DPGZS2aj9E0TbEsufrM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mZjE0/MDA1NDMwYTk2MGRk/YWI2YWEwNTUyZmU2/NjE2MS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}