For car buyers, the purchase price and the availability of a sufficient amount of refueling options are important. Financial incentives from governments help here. Canada, for example, is focusing strongly on electromobility. Canada’s 2022 budget sets out a series of investments for electromobility. These include purchase incentives for heavy and medium-duty e-vehicles as well as raw materials and infrastructure expansion. This is based on the fight against climate change and the end of combustion engines in 2035. And it is not only purely battery-powered vehicles that are conquering the market; the fuel cell is also set to gain ground, especially in trucks. Because that’s where it’s particularly effective.

For hydrogen in particular, infrastructure, i.e. transport and storage, must be provided for industrial applications alone. Fuel cells need platinum. Palladium is used primarily in catalytic converters for gasoline engines. After the London Platinum and Palladium Market (LPPM) recently removed two state-owned Russian refineries from the Good Delivery List, supply is tightening. Palladium and platinum, for example, are produced by Sibanye-Stillwater – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq9yX508m9s – at its operations in South Africa, Zimbabwe and the United States. The company is also becoming increasingly involved in battery metals such as lithium.

The lithium-ion batteries of electric vehicles need cobalt as well as lithium. Here, too, demand is forecast to rise. Mawson Gold – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUWlpDzhTvw -, for example, has this important raw material in addition to gold at its Rajapalot project in Finland. It is wholly owned by the company and an initial preliminary evaluation (PEA) has been initiated.

Current corporate information and press releases from Sibanye-Stillwater (- https://www.resource-capital.ch/en/companies/sibanye-stillwater-ltd/ -) and Mawson Gold (- https://www.resource-capital.ch/en/companies/mawson-gold-ltd/ -).

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