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1/ Though America’s search is global, Africa, home to around 30% of the world’s mineral resources, is a crucial part of the hunt.

2/ The International Energy Agency, an official forecaster, reckons that by 2040 makers of clean-energy technologies will need 40 times more lithium than in 2020, 25 times more graphite and about 20 times more nickel and cobalt. Demand for rare earth elements—metals in the esoteric parts of the periodic table used in everything from wind-turbine magnets to fighter jets—may be seven times higher by the end of the next decade.

3/ China refines 68% of the world’s nickel, 40% of copper, 59% of lithium and 73% of cobalt, according to a report in July by the Brookings Institution, an American think-tank.

4/ America sees cobalt, which is used in batteries, as a cautionary tale. In Congo, the source of about 70% of global production, Chinese entities owned or had stakes in 15 of 19 cobalt-producing mines as of 2020.

5/ Америка активно заходит (не записал в какие именно страны)

6/ The partnership is not restricted to projects in Africa, but representatives from Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia attended a meeting to discuss it in New York last year

7/ Кобальт добывают больше, чем в 2020 году. Хотя стоимость оч сильно упала. Почему? Потому что кобальт является побочным продуктом при добыче никеля и меди. Плюс еще на кобальт скажется то, что в 2025 году первые батареи электромобилей будут перерабатывать (8 летний цикл)