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Sibanye-Stillwater to achieve majority shareholding in Keliber; seeks to increase shareholding further to 80%

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South Africa-based mining and metals group Sibanye-Stillwater acquired an initial 30.29% shareholding in Keliber Oy as announced on 23 February 2021, by way of a phased equity investment. Keliber has completed a definitive feasibility study (DFS) which has confirmed the quality and inherent value of the Keliber project.

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Sibanye-Stillwater investing $490M to create 50:50 JV with ioneer for US-based Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron project

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South Africa-based Sibanye-Stillwater will establish. The Rhyolite Ridge Definitive Feasibility Study , completed in April 2020, supports (100% project basis): 22 ktpa lithium hydroxide and 174 ktpa boric acid average production; 26-year mine life underpinned by 0.6 mt lithium carbonate and 5.3 mt lithium carbonate and 11.9

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Neo Performance Materials and Energy Fuels launching US-European rare earth production initiative

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Under an agreement in principle, subject to completion of definitive agreements, Colorado-based Energy Fuels will process natural monazite sands into an RE Carbonate beginning in March or April 2021 and ship a portion of that production to Neo’s rare earth separations facility in Sillamäe, Estonia (Silmet).

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict. Even South Africa, by far the best-supplied country south of the Sahara, suffers from frequent blackouts.

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Synovate Global Study Explores Future Car Buyers Sentiments

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The study revealed that future car buyers in the US, Germany, UK, Spain, Russia, France and South Africa have a strong desire for change, wanting to adopt more balance in life. Interestingly enough, a definite change in discretionary spending is expected among car owners and future car buyers in these markets.

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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If AI is not inevitable, if it’s a choice to use it, are there any application areas right now where you think we should definitely choose not to use AI? One of our research fellows, Raesetje Sefala , is based in South Africa and grew up in a township. Maybe AI is not the answer for what some particular community needs.

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Charged and umlaut continue partnership on 2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Benchmark

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In Europe, we also published a charging infrastructure benchmark, and we definitely see that, with the rising numbers of EVs, the importance of charging infrastructure is growing. Hakan Ekmen: That’s definitely a future topic for us. In Germany, for example, 25% of new cars are electrified.