Australia is boosting funding to critical-minerals producers and refiners as the US ally seeks to break\nChina's dominance of key commodities tied to the clean-energy transition and military technologies.\nSome 13 projects, including a nickel-cobalt refinery and heavy-rare-earths manufacturing ...
[7] While the exact details of the Future Made in Australia Act are not yet known, the energy transition focus is clear, with Minister for Resources Madeleine King commenting that critical minerals funding would be vital in building the foundation...
has been increasing its efforts to reduce its reliance on foreign supply of critical minerals, including providing funding for mapping its critical mineral resources and the first rare earth element and critical minerals extraction and separation refinery in the U.S., among other initiatives. Show ...
The data also show that no country has a monopoly on critical minerals reserves. Ten years ago, 50% of all known REE deposits were in China. Today, that figure is down to 34%. There have also been significant new discoveries in countries as diverse as Indonesia, Argentina, ...
Instead of the often-ill-fated deals we saw in the last super cycle, private investors have focused on smaller projects – as reflected by a 160 per cent increase in venture capital funding for critical minerals start-ups.[3]Investors’ caution may also be attributable to Western geopolitical ...
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Each of these strategies require various Government funding and policy initiatives (such as potentially reducing barriers to foreign investment in critical minerals with select international trade partners, etc). If the Australian Federal Government recognised copper as part of Australia's national Critical...
“With this funding, Utah will continue to play a vital role in United States’ production of rare earth metals and critical minerals, which will help rebuild our supply chain and decrease our dependence on China,” Romney said. Furthermore, China produces almost 70% of the world’s tot...
Canada has proposed to create a Critical Battery Minerals Centre of Excellence at Natural Resources Canada with $36.8m of funding over three years for federal research and development to advance critical battery mineral processing and refining expertise.¹² Canada also joined the Global Battery ...
Essentially, the funding of the entire JEEP is through the monetisation of Zimbabwe's sovereign right to the minerals in the ground. Recent studies show that the mining sector is becoming an anchor of the economy, particularly with ... N African - Indigenisation Success Stories: Despite a Barra...