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Study finds cobalt supply can meet demand for EVs and electronics batteries through 2030

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Roughly 60% of mined cobalt is sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. The element is often recovered as a byproduct from mining copper and nickel, meaning that demand and pricing for those other metals affects the availability of cobalt.

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Democratic Republic of Congo produces 70 percent of the world's cobalt, and most of the world's nickel sits under Indonesian rainforests. Craig Smith , an oceanography professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa , who has led seven research expeditions to the CCZ. million to assess the impacts of deep-sea mining in the CCZ.

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Study finds cobalt supply can meet demand for EVs and electronics batteries through 2030

Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

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