Why Investors are Targeting African Lithium Deposits
The phone calls have changed. For most of my twenty-five years on the Jos Plateau, the people who rang me wanted tin, columbite or tantalite. These days, more and more of the voices on the line — some from Lagos, many from Shanghai, a growing number from London and Toronto — ask about one thing:…
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Battery Minerals and the Clean Energy Transition
A few years ago, the young men who used to bring me cassiterite and columbite from the pegmatites around the Plateau started showing up with a different rock. Pale, glassy, sometimes faintly pinkish or lilac — spodumene and lepidolite. They did not always know what they had. I did. The same lithium-cesium-tantalum pegmatites that have…
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Nigerian Lithium Ore Supplier: Powering the Global Green Energy Revolution
Nigerian Lithium Ore Supplier: Powering the Global Green Energy Revolution As the world pivots toward renewable energy and electric mobility, the demand for lithium—the “white gold” of the 21st century—has reached unprecedented levels. At the center of this global transition is Nigeria, a nation endowed with vast, high-quality lithium deposits. For international buyers and refineries,…
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