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Critical Minerals and Mining's Future with Lomiko's Belinda Labatte

On The Rocks

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Is There a Venture Capital Fund for Early Stage Mining?

If you could change one thing about the mining industry, what would it be? What I would really like to see is large institutional or pension fund investors coming together and developing a venture capital fund that will invest in early stage mining. There's no way we can change the supply chain dynamics without that type of funding. The United States is import dependent on 14 of the 30 critical minerals,. Like 100% import dependent and then there are about 50% reliant on imports for another 10 critical minerals.

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