Kenya's 3 minerals known to fuel regional conflict, poverty

Kenya is all set to join the murky but lucrative world of "3T conflict minerals" at a time when latest study shows global effort to bring order in the industry is behind target. Last week, a senior official at the State Department of Mining intimated to an industry meet that Kenya is "likely to join producers of tin, tungsten and tantalum, hopefully in the near future."

The three are used in industrial applications, and in many consumer products but are -alongside gold- derisively referred to as "conflict minerals" or 3T & G due to their role in promoting strife and other social and envirommental ills in places of origin.