Funding will enable Trafigura to complete Congo miner Chemaf's new mechanized mine at Mutoshi, processing plant in Kolwezi, and the expansion of its Etoile mine.
A European fund tied to Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures invested $12 million in the I-ROX pulsed-power venture with Robert Friedland’s I-Pulse Inc.
Becancour is drawing corporate giants to the French-speaking Canadian province with its ambitions to make this industrial outpost, halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, a key gear for an EV battery supply chain to serve the continent.