That's a very brave statement, given that there's currently no clear data for Tin/Tungsten/Tantalum/Gold smelters' ore origins. I've seen the data. Two of the eleven tantalum smelters on the planet have been audited. The others aren't sure where all their ore comes from. Big problem. Working on solving it.
So this makes for ok PR, but when there is a global market for commodities this is all feel good bullshit. Sure the atoms that are in your CPU weren't mined in a warzone but does that absolve you of complicity in participating in a global economy that is going to source raw materials from anywhere it can regardless of the conditions?<p>Great command and control on the supply chain side but somehow I wonder what the data is on whether this actually makes any real impact on the conflicts in question beyond further reducing the capital flow to already incredibly impoverished regions.