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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

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Goldman: So there’s a whole suite of different metals that we need, and they each play different roles in the renewable energy system. And then of course we use copper windings in the electric motors as well. And our Mingomba project in Zambia is by far the furthest along. And where do we go from there?

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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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With a functioning AfCFTA, the DRC can receive other upstream mineral inputs needed for lithium-ion batteries—such as manganese from, say, South Africa and Madagascar, copper from Zambia, graphite from Mozambique and Tanzania, phosphate from Morocco, and lithium from Zimbabwe, to name but a few.

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