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Tirupati Graphite opens second mine in Madagascar at Vatomina Project

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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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NextSource Materials to collaborate on battery anode plant in Madagascar with Japanese and Chinese partners

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executed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with its Japanese offtake partner and a leading Chinese processor of graphite anode material to collaborate on the construction of a value-add, battery anode plant in a jurisdiction that is proximal to the Company’s Molo graphite project in Madagascar. Canada-based NextSource Materials Inc. Mt at 7.02%C.

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Tirupati Graphite to acquire strategic Mozambique graphite projects from Battery Minerals

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The project’s graphite product basket is a mix of jumbo, large and small flake, complementing Tirupati’s existing mix of predominantly jumbo and large flake graphite products from Madagascar. The new acquisition will complement Tirupati’s two primary graphite projects in Madagascar. Background.

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Benchmark: flake graphite production in Africa set to overtake China this decade

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Graphite mine in Madagascar. In contrast, China is set to fall from 68% to 35%, according to Benchmark’s Flake Graphite Forecast. The increased supply from Africa could help diversify global battery supply chains, if processing capacity is built outside of China.

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Topsoe launches TITAN steam reforming catalyst series with boosted reliability and efficiency

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and a hexagonal crystal structure found in high-grade metamorphic rocks on Madagascar. The TITAN series offers improved performance and longer catalyst lifetime due to their hibonite-rich composition. Hibonite is a mineral with a hardness of 7.5–8.0

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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: ARTEMIS

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RoboCup ] WeRobotics is coordinating critical cargo drone logistics in Madagascar with Aerial Metric, Madagascar Flying Labs and PSI. [ Tevel ] My favorite RoboCup event, where the world championship robots take on the RoboCup trustees!

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Roskill: Cobalt demand to grow steadily over the next decade

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In Africa, a number of mining operations temporarily suspended production during the first half of the year, with some remaining closed as of October 2020, including Ambatovy in Madagascar and most of the artisanal and small-scale (ASM) operations in the DRC.

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Video Friday: Ameca Humanoid

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MBZIRC ] Madagascar Flying Labs and WeRobotics are using cargo drones to deliver essential medicines to very remote communities in northern Madagascar. This month, they delivered the 250 doses of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine for the first time, with many more such deliveries to come over the next 12 months. WeRobotics ] It's.

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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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With a functioning AfCFTA, the DRC can receive other upstream mineral inputs needed for lithium-ion batteries—such as manganese from, say, South Africa and Madagascar, copper from Zambia, graphite from Mozambique and Tanzania, phosphate from Morocco, and lithium from Zimbabwe, to name but a few.

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Burundi, Central African Republic, Madagascar, the Bahamas, and Latvia slipped significantly in environmental performance, largely due to sub-par performance on climate change. All trend analyses are based on backcasting this year’s EPI methods on historical data. 2018 EPI Trends.

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Tesla supplier sheds light on graphite supply challenge for EV battery manufacturers [Editorial]

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Russia, Madagascar, Ukraine, Norway, Canada, India, and Sri Lanka make up the remaining Top 10 countries that produce graphite. This allowed China to gain a more dominant position in the market for 2021 and slowed down the diversification of the supply chain,” noted the US Geological Survey’s report.

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EV Project on Reunion Island

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Reunion island lies 800 km (497 miles) east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, and has an area of 2,512 square kilometers (970 square miles). VERT is also an opportunity to test specific electric mobility offers aimed at company or government vehicle fleets and at individual customers.

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EU Launches 37M Next-Generation Integrated Biorefinery Project

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The project partners come from 14 countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Madagascar, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

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A few cables connect Indian Ocean islands—such as Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, and the Seychelles—to the African mainland. It leaves glaring gaps in the southern seas—specifically, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. The gaps aren’t completely empty.

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

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The focus for new natural graphite development remains in Africa, where almost 1 Mtpy of additional concentrate capacity has the potential to come online by 2027 with projects in Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, and Tanzania. Other projects are also planned in Austria, Canada, India, Russia and the US.

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EV Radar: May 2022

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Madagascar. Kazakhstan. Kyrgyzstan. Liechtenstein. Luxembourg. Marshall Islands. Martinique. Mauritania. Micronesia. Montenegro. Montserrat.

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EV Radar: June 2022

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Madagascar. Kazakhstan. Kyrgyzstan. Liechtenstein. Luxembourg. Marshall Islands. Martinique. Mauritania. Micronesia. Montenegro. Montserrat.

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EV Radar: April 2022

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Madagascar. Kazakhstan. Kyrgyzstan. Liechtenstein. Luxembourg. Marshall Islands. Martinique. Mauritania. Micronesia. Montenegro. Montserrat.

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Could The Transition To Electric Mobility On The African Continent Support Development Of Local Battery Manufacturing?

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The transition to electric mobility presents a major opportunity for the African continent to leapfrog into the age of electric mobility, allowing most of the continent’s population to bypass the ICE age. Africa’s low motorization rates compared to other parts of the world makes this highly probable.

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

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The Inflation Reduction Act requires, to receive the incentives, restrictions on where the critical minerals come from, where they’re processed, etc, so we’re looking at Canada, Brazil, Australia, we’re looking at Southern Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania, for alternate sources of the raw material.

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