Cobalt is an essential part of most smartphones and laptops. Demand for the mineral is soaring but the process of extracting it from the earth comes at serious human cost. Young children work in dangerous conditions mining cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for as little as 8 pence a day. Sky News special correspondent Alex Crawford reports. | Organic Rising

Cobalt has been used to make blue glass and ceramics for thousands of years by cultures across the world, including in China, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The pigment we know today as Cobalt Blue (PB28) was synthesised in 1802 by Louis Jacques Thénard, who described it as ‘a blue colour as beautiful as Ultramarine'. Learn more about Blue Pigments on our blog: https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2021/10/15/pigment-colour-index-blue-pigments/?utm_campaign=cobalt_blue&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic