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Tag: Cobalt

Raw Cobaltite ore is the driving force behind the technology boom. Photo: Shutterstock
Posted inChina, United Kingdom, World

E-cars and smartphones spark a new gold rush

by Hywel Jones August 4, 2018February 18, 2020

What’s in your stuff? Most of us give no thought to the materials that make modern life possible. Yet technologies such as smartphones, electric vehicles, large screen TVs and green energy generation depend on a range of chemical elements that most people have never heard of. Until the late 20th century, many were regarded as […]

Photo: Flickr Commons
Posted inAustralia, China, Middle East, Oceania, World

The futility of China’s ‘Responsible Cobalt Initiative’

by Jon Connars May 24, 2018May 24, 2018
Excavators and drillers work in an open pit at Tenke Fungurume, a copper and cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. BMW hopes to use blockchain to source ethical cobalt. Photo: Reuters / Jonny Hogg
Posted inBangladesh, Beijing, China, Japan, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

The Chain: BMW to use blockchain to source ethical cobalt; more hacks

by Richard Cook March 9, 2018February 18, 2020
Photo: iStock
Posted inBeijing, China

Battery recycling market to see steady growth

by Asia Times staff February 5, 2018February 18, 2020
Image of lithium batteries of various sizes. Photo: iStock/Getty Images
Posted inAustralia, Beijing, China, Japan, Northeast Asia, Oceania, South Asia, South Korea, World

China charges Australia’s lithium boom

by Lachlan Colquhoun January 23, 2018February 18, 2020
Cobalt ore. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Posted inAT Finance, China, Indonesia, World

Freeport, China Moly agree to end talks on cobalt assets

by Admin June 15, 2017February 18, 2020

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