Stop polluting, from the nickel or cobalt mine, to the electric car.
The challenge is immense for the mining industry, pressed by its customers, battery manufacturers, as well as by NGOs and civil society, to extract the metals essential to the energy transition while polluting as little as possible.
“As investors sift the battery supply chain through socially responsible investment criteria, it becomes crucial for manufacturers to be able to ensure that the cobalt and nickel they use come from clean sources,”
Gregory warns. Miller, analyst at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
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By definition, the mine produces a lot of waste.
For a tonne of rock extracted, we only find 30 kg of nickel at best.
The miner therefore finds himself with 970 kg of unnecessary earth and stones.
"This waste contains either heavy metals, or arsenic, lead, chromium, or sulphide ores",
Judith Pigneur list,
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