“There isn’t any probability of creating the vitality transition with out Africa,” Robert Friedland, the founding father of Ivanhoe Mines, who found the Kamoa-Kakula copper deposit in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), instructed the London Indaba convention on mineral assets, vitality and mining in June final yr.
Certainly, decisive assets for a low-carbon economic system are plentiful in Africa. The continent’s manufacturing of metals used within the manufacture of batteries, photo voltaic panels, wind generators and different electrical networks is spectacular.
DRC is the main producer of cobalt, whereas South Africa is in pole place for platinum and manganese. As a complete, the continent accounts for greater than half of the world’s manufacturing of those three minerals.
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