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INDIA, CHINA CONTRIBUTE MOST TO GLOBAL GREENERY: NASA

WASHINGTON: India and China are leading the way in greening lands, thanks to ambitious tree-planting programs and intensive agriculture in both countries, Nasa satellite data has shown. The world is getting literally greener than it was 20 years ago, the study published in the latest edition in Nature Sustainability on Monday said. It...
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NASDAQ: BOLIVIA PICKS CHINESE PARTNER FOR $2.3 BLN LITHIUM PROJECT

By Daniel Ramos LA PAZ, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Bolivia has chosen a Chinese consortium to help it produce lithium, the government said on Wednesday, giving China a potential foothold in the country's huge untapped reserves of the prized electric battery metal. China'sXinjiang TBEA Group Co Ltd will hold a 49 percent stake in a...
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Billionaire Robert Friedland Plans World’s No. 2 Copper Mine

  • Ivanhoe Mines’ Congo deposit could produce 700,000 tons a year
  • Sanford Bernstein says mining region is world’s most exciting
Billionaire investor Robert Friedland said the copper deposit Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. is developing in the Democratic Republic of Congo has the potential to become the world’s No. 2 mine for the metal. “Kamoa-Kakula will become the world’s...
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Indonesia plans electric vehicle incentives for foreign car makers

JAKARTA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Indonesia is finalizing a new electric vehicle (EV) policy that will offer fiscal incentives to foreign car makers, as it ramps up efforts to become a lithium battery hub, its deputy industry minister said on Tuesday. "Our target is for 20 percent of all cars produced in Indonesia...
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