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05.02.26 - 19:02
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China-Built Railway Opens to Unlock Giant Algerian Iron Ore Mine (Caixin)
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A Chinese-built heavy-haul railway has opened in Algeria, a strategic project designed to unlock one of the world's largest iron ore mines and bolster the North African nation's efforts to diversify its economy away from an overreliance on natural gas exports.
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05.02.26 - 16:36
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Trump administration expresses interest in Cornish tin mine (The Guardian)
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South Crofty site could reopen aided by potential $225m investment as US seeks to secure supply of critical metalDonald Trump has aggressively pursued investment into hi-tech industries recent months, but the US administration has now set its sights on a more traditional sector: tin mining in Cornwall.The South Crofty mine, near the village of Pool, could start up again after nearly three decades aided by a potential $225m (£166m) investment from across the Atlantic, in a move that would create 300 jobs. Continue reading......
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05.02.26 - 09:03
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Russia Offers To Remove All Enriched Uranium From Iran (ZeroHedge)
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Russia Offers To Remove All Enriched Uranium From Iran
On potential upcoming US-Iran talks, the two sides can't agree on scope - with Washington wanting to go beyond just the nuclear sphere and into the question of Tehran putting limits on its ballistic missile arsenal. The Iranians have given a firm no on this, and so the talks look doomed to fail. But Russia is now offering - or at least reiterating - a potentially huge overture.
"Moscow is willing to take what remains of Iran's enriched uranium," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said Wednesday.
"At the same time, it is important to note that the aforementioned stockpiles belong to Iran. Their presence in no way contradicts Tehran's obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons," Zakharova stressed in a fresh press briefing, as quoted by Kommersant.
This explanation backs the longtime insistence by Iranian leadership that its nuclear development is only for peacefu...
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05.02.26 - 08:06
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China′s CATL tests EVs – and lithium′s dominance – with pioneering sodium-ion battery (SCMP)
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Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) has deployed the world's first sodium-ion batteries in passenger cars, as it aims to stay ahead in China's fiercely competitive electric vehicle (EV) market amid price volatility in traditional lithium-ion batteries.
The company's new Naxtra battery will be installed in China Changan Automobile Group EVs this week for winter testing in the chilly Inner Mongolia autonomous region in the country's north.
“The breakthroughs in sodium-ion technology bring......
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