Net Impact presents a discussion of conflict minerals and its importance to Best Buy and you, as a consumer. The consumer electronics manufacturing supply chain is both complicated and fascinating. Learn how we collaborate with our vendor partners such as Intel, Apple and HP to work toward a conflict-free supply chain.

Tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold are referred to as “conflict minerals” because of the armed groups that illegally profit from some mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Best Buy cares about this issue, not only because we are a responsible company, but as a manufacturer of our Exclusive Brands products, we now must annually report the sources of our conflict mineral to the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC).