I think it is an original story set in Middle Earth. You can tell by the agency of the female protagonist that it’s not a Tolkien plot/character 😅

Yeah I was thinking this. I hardly expect the smugglers are setting up meetings with Apple executives and selling them blood minerals. The most important part of their business is knowing how to safely sell the contraband, they obviously have discreet channels where a few well placed bribes can get the minerals into the supply chain with nobody being the wiser.

You have to catch the smugglers/miners to stop the blood minerals. Even if it were possible for Apple to root them out, they’d just keep selling to other companies.