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Tirupati Graphite opens second mine in Madagascar at Vatomina Project

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Tirupati Graphite plc, a fully integrated specialist graphite producer and graphene developer with operations in Madagascar and India, has opened its second mine in Madagascar at the Vatomina Project, where it remains on track to start commissioning the first 9,000 tpa processing plant in Q2 2021.

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Roskill: Cobalt demand to grow steadily over the next decade

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Since the commercialization of Li-ion batteries in early 1990s, it has been consumer electronics that has underpinned cobalt demand. New supply from sizable producers like Katanga Mining, coupled with swing artisanal production, put the market into oversupply. Aviation has been one of the sectors hardest hit by the pandemic.

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Tirupati Graphite to acquire strategic Mozambique graphite projects from Battery Minerals

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Mozambique is home to commercially significant deposits of graphite; a key determinant of mining opportunities in Mozambique is the global energy transition, which has driven demand for certain minerals needed for electric vehicles and vehicles that rely on hydrogen fuel cells. Background.

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Report: Chinese Export Rule Changes Could Impact EV Battery Production

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But the region doesn’t just have the market cornered on completed batteries. Mozambique and Madagascar produce 13 and 8.5 We’ve frequently commented on how shifting toward all-electric vehicles inherently benefits China due to it being the world’s largest battery supplier by a significant margin.

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