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E-Tech Resources expands mineral landholdings at the Eureka REE Project in Namibia

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E-Tech Resources, a rare earth exploration and development company developing its Eureka Rare Earths Project in Namibia, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire an 85% interest in exclusive prospecting license 8748 (EPL 8748). The project is situated next to the national B1 highway in the Erongo Region of Namibia.

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Northern Graphite closes acquisition of two graphite mines; 3rd largest non-Chinese graphite company

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Canada-based Northern Graphite Corporation has closed its previously announced acquisition of the producing Lac des Iles graphite mine (LDI) in Québec from a subsidiary of Imerys SA and the Okanjande graphite deposit/Okorusu processing plant in Namibia from a subsidiary of Imerys and its joint venture partner. Sprott invested CDN$3.75

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Benchmark: Africa’s lithium production to increase >10x this decade; potentially 12% of global supply

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Of the critical battery minerals, cobalt is the one with which Africa captures the largest share of the upstream mining. In graphite—unlike in cobalt and lithium—non-Chinese companies are the dominant investors on the continent.

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Walkabout Resources’ Tanzanian graphite project moves to construction phase

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Award of these contracts is expected shortly, the company said. In addition to the Lindi Jumbo Project, Walkabout is also exploring in south west Tanzania at the Amani Hard Rock Gold Project and southern Namibia at the Eureka Lithium Project. of Lindi Jumbo mine costs.

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Should the Cobalt for EVs Come From the Congo or the Seafloor?

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Last March, BMW and Volvo joined other companies calling for a moratorium on deep-sea mining , one spearheaded by the World Wildlife Fund. This simmering controversy will no doubt reach the boiling point in 2022, when the Metals Company begins testing a system for collecting metal-rich nodules from the ocean floor.

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