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Bass Metals to acquire San Jorge lithium brine project in Argentina

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Along with Bass’ graphite assets in Madagascar, Bass considers the San Jorge project as a logical addition to its asset base and to its strategy to be an integrated supplier of both anode and cathode materials. Bass has exposure to both.

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Video Friday: Ameca Humanoid

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Designed specifically as a platform for development into future robotics technologies, Ameca is the perfect humanoid robot platform for human-robot interaction. MBZIRC ] Madagascar Flying Labs and WeRobotics are using cargo drones to deliver essential medicines to very remote communities in northern Madagascar.

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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

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The project, situated in the Cabo Delgado province of northern Mozambique, some 200 km (124 miles) west of the port town of Pemba, has the potential to become the largest in the world with plans to increase capacity to 350 ktpy in the future (around 60% of current global flake production).

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

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However, the use of silicon is limited by its tendency to expand significantly during charge and discharge, so graphite is expected to remain the main anode material for the foreseeable future. So all the workable batteries that are out there now use graphite on the anode side, and they will for—as we see it—the foreseeable future.

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Report: Chinese Export Rule Changes Could Impact EV Battery Production

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Mozambique and Madagascar produce 13 and 8.5 To meet the needs of the clean energy economy while respecting our obligations to Tribal Nations, taxpayers, the environment, and future generations, we need a modernized approach to make sure mining in this country is sustainable, responsible and efficient," said Tommy Beaudreau, then-U.S.

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Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

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Roskill has so far recorded the closure of 21 operations as a result of the outbreak, including: Vale’s Voisey’s Bay and Glencore’s Sudbury in Canada; Ambatovy in Madagascar; Coral Bay and Taganito in the Philippines; CTT in Morocco.

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