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Battery minerals crunch coming as investors gun shy

"Gun shy" investors are the missing link in providing the mineral raw materials required for the forecast growth in the lithium-ion battery supply chain, Simon Moores, managing director of Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, has said during the virtual Benchmark Summit 2020.

US senator Lisa Murkowski

US senator Lisa Murkowski

"The cold hard reality is that investment in minerals supply is still too slow or stagnant," Moores said. "Money isn't going into raw material markets and we will hit a wall in 2025 to supply the minerals...

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