Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Since the commercialization of Li-ion batteries in early 1990s, it has been consumer electronics that has underpinned cobalt demand. Underpinned by the huge demand for cobalt feedstocks from the battery sector versus relatively tight supply, the cobalt metal price climbed from below US$15/lb in 2016 to a ten-year high of US$43/lb in Q2 2018.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2021

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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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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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