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Walkabout Resources’ Tanzanian graphite project moves to construction phase

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In addition to the Lindi Jumbo Project, Walkabout is also exploring in south west Tanzania at the Amani Hard Rock Gold Project and southern Namibia at the Eureka Lithium Project. It demonstrates the focus on the shallower, high grade material in the early years with the deepening of the pit taking place later in the life of mine.

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HyIron opens direct reduction plant for green iron

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In Namibia, we are currently setting up an industrial-scale production with the support of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK). Here in Lingen, we are already using iron ore from Namibia to optimize the process and the product.

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Benchmark: Africa’s lithium production to increase >10x this decade; potentially 12% of global supply

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Namibia recently banned exports of non-beneficiated ores of critical minerals including lithium following in the footsteps of Zimbabwe, which passed similar legislation in December last year. Last month, Namibia banned the export of unprocessed lithium, cobalt, manganese, graphite and rare earth minerals.

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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

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The focus for new natural graphite development remains in Africa, where almost 1 Mtpy of additional concentrate capacity has the potential to come online by 2027 with projects in Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, and Tanzania. Other projects are also planned in Austria, Canada, India, Russia and the US.

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Video Friday: Fluidic Fingers

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Existing methods battle trade-offs between the complexity of designs critical for contact-rich tasks, and the practical constraints of manufacturing, and contact handling. Drone Adventures maps wildlife in Namibia from above. Most hands are designed for general purpose, as it’s very tedious to make task-specific hands. MIT CSAIL ].

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