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

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This will increase the region’s strength in the supply of critical minerals beyond cobalt, which the continent has historically dominated. Benchmark’s Lithium Forecast shows that the region is expected to account for just 4% of global mined lithium supply this year.

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It’s too late to China-proof the lithium supply chain – ET Auto

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Parts of our key supply chains, including for clean energy, are currently over-concentrated in China,” US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said earlier this month during a visit to Chile, home to the largest lithium reserves. Add in Zimbabwe, where Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. billion) into a financing facility to support exports.

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GlobalData: Global lithium production to triple over the next four years

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High growth in demand for lithium batteries is spurring three-fold growth in mine production of lithium over the next four years, with 86kt of new lithium metal capacity coming on stream, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. After moderate growth in lithium supply between 2010 and 2017 of 6.4%

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Business Leaders Call for Linking Water, Energy and Climate in Global Talks

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In the examples cited in the report, biomass for biofuels has the largest and widest ranging footprint: from 24,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in the Netherlands to 143,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in Zimbabwe. Such ecosystem impacts also affect the amount of water or energy supplies available. Data: WBCSD (2009). Click to enlarge.

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Comedy CAFE Clowns Crack Me Up

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By which GM’s head Putz means more money from you and me for a car company that will soon be going bankrupt and stiffing everyone they owe. How about if we give it to you in those big denomination Zimbabwe dollars? Now that’s funny! Really Bob? Even MORE money for GM? Maybe some Washington Mutual stock instead?

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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