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NextSource Materials to collaborate on battery anode plant in Madagascar with Japanese and Chinese partners

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Canada-based NextSource Materials Inc. executed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with its Japanese offtake partner and a leading Chinese processor of graphite anode material to collaborate on the construction of a value-add, battery anode plant in a jurisdiction that is proximal to the Company’s Molo graphite project in Madagascar. Mt at 7.02%C.

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Benchmark: flake graphite production in Africa set to overtake China this decade

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Benchmark forecasts Africa to increase its share of global graphite production from 15% in 2021 to 40% in 2026. The increased supply from Africa could help diversify global battery supply chains, if processing capacity is built outside of China. Graphite mine in Madagascar. The US and Canada currently refine only 3% and 3.5%

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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

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Roskill forecasts that global sales of EVs and hybrid vehicles will increase rapidly in the coming years and could account for 69% of all motor vehicle sales by 2027. Other projects are also planned in Austria, Canada, India, Russia and the US. Just 6% of China’s steel is currently produced in EAF, far below the global average of 25%.

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

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Graphex is a major global producer and distributor of graphite in its various forms. So, we are looking to our neighbor to the north—Canada, where there are mining operations that are either currently online or coming online in the near future. We’re looking at mines in Canada, all kinds of mines outside of China. Probably not.

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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 percent of the global graphite supply, respectively, while Brazil handles about 6 percent. While Canada and Russia are responsible for about 1 percent a piece, every other nation on the planet represents less than a single percent of the world’s total supply.

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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. Roskill expects the cobalt market to face more severe supply disruption should the prevention and control measures be further extended on a global scale. Gulley, Erin A.

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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This ranking puts the United States near the back of the industrialized nations, behind France (2 nd ), the United Kingdom (6 th ), Germany (13 th ), Italy (16 th ), Japan (20 th ), and Canada (25 th ). EPI and Global Sustainability Data. All trend analyses are based on backcasting this year’s EPI methods on historical data.

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