1. Making the Connection: The components of your mobile phone

2. Fascia Plastic casing Plastic is developed from oil Image: www.comparestoreprices.co.uk

3. Source: http://www.cia.gov/ Ecuador Saudi Arabia Russia

4. Battery Raw materials: Cadmium Nickel Lithium Image: www.buy-mobile-phone-batteries.co.uk

5. Source: http://www.cia.gov/ Japan USA Chile

6. Speaker and microphone speaker microphone Clock battery Image: www.howstuffworks.com

7. Source: http://www.cia.gov/ Thailand China

8. Circuit board Digital to analogue chip Analogue to digital chip Amplifier ROM Flash Memory Signal processor 100s capacitors ~50,000 transistors SIM card Microprocessor Image: www.howstuffworks.com

9. Source: http://www.cia.gov/ Japan Taiwan China Malaysia

10. The metals Gold Copper Coltan

11. Source: http://www.cia.gov/ South Africa Chile Democratic Republic of Congo

12. What have gorillas got to do with mobile phones? Coltan easy to mine- good wages. Farmers quit farming to mine coltan. Civil war in DCR- money earned from mining is fuelling war. Claimed 3 million lives. Mining coltan in National Parks & killing eastern, lowland gorillas for bushmeat. Very few gorillas now remain. 1 in 5 chance that your mobile contains DRC coltan. Image: www.africa-vacations.com and www.rainforestlive.org.uk

13. Assembly Images: http://analogik.com/gallery_nokia.asp

14. Source: http://www.cia.gov/ UK Finland China Mexico

15. Source: http://www.cia.gov/ Japan Taiwan China Malaysia UK Finland Mexico Chile South Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Ecuador Thailand Russia Saudi Arabia USA