Rare Earth Elements and the Electric Vehicle Revolution
The electric vehicle is often described as a triumph of software, batteries and bold design — and it is all of those things. But spin the story back to its raw materials and you arrive at a quieter, less celebrated truth: the modern EV is, at its core, a machine built around a small group…
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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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Nigeria’s Position in the Global Battery Minerals Market: Reading the Map From the Inside
There is a particular kind of conversation I have learned to recognise after twenty-four years in this trade. It usually begins with an international buyer or analyst who has just discovered that Nigeria sits on serious deposits of the very minerals their industry is desperate for, and it almost always carries the same note of…
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