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Benchmark: battery demand for manganese set to increase 8-fold this decade

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General Motors has invested in Element25 ( earlier post ), which is building a manganese refinery in Louisiana, and this month also backed Mitra Chem, a Silicon Valley company which is developing lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP) cathodes ( earlier post ). —Jess Roberts, Benchmark’s Head of Forecasting

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Researchers predict average Gulf of Mexico hypoxic “dead zone” slightly above-average in Chesapeake Bay

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NOAA­-supported modeling is forecasting this year''s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone to cover an area ranging from about 4,633 to 5,708 square miles (12,000 to 14,785 square kilometers) or about the size of the state of Connecticut. The forecast predicts a mid­summer low­-oxygen hypoxic zone of 1.97 cubic miles.

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Encana’s Inventory of Natural Gas Resources More than Sufficient to Double Production in 5 Years

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million net acres across many of the continent’s most prolific and lowest-cost resource plays, stretching from northeast British Columbia to Texas and Louisiana. The additional capital increases the company’s total 2010 forecast capital investment to approximately US$4.5 The company is now targeting an exit rate for 2010 of between 3.4

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