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Can Africa’s battery minerals market keep pace with technology shifts and global tensions?

Battery mineral markets are complex and ever changing. In a world where technological advancement can make a mineral no longer needed for a battery and geopolitical volatility can cause nations to rethink the immediate needs of the next energy transition, how can you know what mineral to invest in, and does this pose an existential threat to Africa’s critical minerals market?


Wednesday 11 February 14:35 - 15:20 Critical Minerals Ngorongoro Crater Stage (CTICC1 - Level 2)

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Battery mineral markets are complex and ever changing. In a world where technological advancement can make a mineral no longer needed for a battery and geopolitical volatility can cause nations to rethink the immediate needs of the next energy transition, how can you know what mineral to invest in, and does this pose an existential threat to Africa’s critical minerals market?

Ngorongoro Crater Stage (CTICC1 - Level 2) Africa/Johannesburg
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Moderator

Kirsten Hund

Head of Climate & Nature, Vale Base Metals

Speakers

Mikhail Nikomarov

Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Roland Chavasse

Secretary General, International Lithium Association