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Short for columbite-tantalite, coltan is a metallic ore used to make tantalum capacitors, which control the electrical current flow in cell phone circuit boards. Some 80 percent of the world’s known coltan supply is in eastern Congo, and armed groups reap profits from illegal coltan mining and smuggling.
