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BHP investing US$40M in Kabanga Nickel, US$10 in Lifezone; 2nd tranche of $50M slated for Kabanga

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BHP, a world leading resources company, has invested US$40 million into Kabanga Nickel in Tanzania. Lifezone hydromet is more cost-efficient than smelting, has a significantly lower environmental impact, and will ensure that finished Class 1 battery-grade nickel, copper and cobalt will be produced in Tanzania, Kabanga Nickel said.

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Researchers castigate planning bodies for ill-conceived Jatropha programs

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million ha (49,421 square miles) are expected to be planted by 2015—are “ anything but encouraging ”, according to Promode Kant from the Institute of Green Economy in India and Shuirong Wu of the Chinese Academy of Forestry. China is seeing very little production of biodiesel from Jatropha seeds. —Kant and Wu.

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Study finds economic losses due to health burdens caused by in-car PM2.5 exposure inversely proportional to per capita GDP

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drivers inhaled is connected to the duration drivers spend in pollution hotspots and socio-economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP). Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5 Abbass, R. Nogueira, T., Abhijith, K. de Fatima Andrade, M., El-Gendy, A., Muula, A.

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Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

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As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, the pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on the global economy and commodity markets, including cobalt. According to a January 2020 report from the US Geological Survey (USGS), the DRC is the world’s leading source of mined cobalt, supplying approximately 70% of world cobalt mine production.

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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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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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