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Tirupati Graphite opens second mine in Madagascar at Vatomina Project

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Tirupati Graphite plc, a fully integrated specialist graphite producer and graphene developer with operations in Madagascar and India, has opened its second mine in Madagascar at the Vatomina Project, where it remains on track to start commissioning the first 9,000 tpa processing plant in Q2 2021.

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Tirupati Graphite to acquire strategic Mozambique graphite projects from Battery Minerals

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The project’s graphite product basket is a mix of jumbo, large and small flake, complementing Tirupati’s existing mix of predominantly jumbo and large flake graphite products from Madagascar. The new acquisition will complement Tirupati’s two primary graphite projects in Madagascar. Background.

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Report: Chinese Export Rule Changes Could Impact EV Battery Production

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Mozambique and Madagascar produce 13 and 8.5 It could even be argued that it further advantages Chinese industries while exacerbating environmental concerns by forcing companies to move countless tons of graphite halfway around the world on container ships. & In terms of graphite production, no other nation comes close.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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While there are notable leading electric-vehicle and cell manufacturers today, the sheer scale of growth expected in the coming decades means that there is inherent uncertainty over which companies and countries may come to dominate this new value chain. We are only at the beginning of the path to achieving net-zero emissions globally.

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