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SpaceX Starlink team meets with Zambia officials for satellite internet services

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SpaceX is talking with Zambia officials, offering Starlink’s internet services to the country. Recently, Jito Kayumba—the Special Assistant to the Republic of Zambia—tweeted about SpaceX and the country’s officials meeting about Starlink services. Looking forward to providing Starlink service to the people of Zambia!

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Electra updates mineral resource estimate at its Iron Creek cobalt-copper project in Idaho

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2023 resource showing the indicated and inferred resource domains as well as blocks with NSR values that are not included in the resource due to insufficient drilling to establish connectivity and DSO outlines. Highlights of the MRE: Indicated resource of 4.4 Inferred resource of 1.2 million pounds of copper.

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Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

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New project announcements have increased the resource under development to about 30,000 MW. GEA President Craig Mataczynski of Gradient Resources has challenged the industry to reach 5% of total US electricity production. In Nevada, NV Energy is looking to replace coal plants with 300 MW of renewable energy, including geothermal.

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Zambia’s President Met With BYD & CATL On A Recent State Visit To China

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In a post on X, President Hichilema said, “We have the natural resources, they have the technology. During that visit, he met with BYD and CATL, which are some of the leading players globally in the electric vehicle and stationary storage ecosystem. This […]

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

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There’s the resources that go into exploration. There’s been an underinvestment in innovation in exploration for these mineral resources. And our Mingomba project in Zambia is by far the furthest along. So that’s what makes the problem really hard. And so lots of clever people are working on this problem.

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US convenes Minerals Security Partnership meeting

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The MSP aims to ensure that critical minerals are produced, processed, and recycled in a manner that supports countries in realizing the full economic development potential of their mineral resources.

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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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