Episode 65: The uber technology special! Ft. cobalt & lithium

Welcome to the "technology special" wherein we discuss emergence of electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, and renewable energies from a hard-rock mining perspective! Our senior staff writer Trish Saywell joins the show from Toronto to talk about her recent research into the cobalt industry. Including: Robert Friedland's Clean Teq Holdings (ASX: CLQ); and First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC; US-OTC: FTSSF), Cobalt One (ASX: CO1) and CobalTech Mining (TSXV: CSK). Meanwhile, Matt discusses a recent "Battery Materials Update" from Canaccord Genuity, and his interview with Cobalt 27 Capital‘s (TSXV: KBLT) chairman Anthony Milewski about its recent $200-million initial public offering (IPO). We then hop over to London to check out comments from Lukas Lundin on the state of energy markets, and how he feels about lithium and cobalt! Timeline: A touch of macro economics: 3:00 Cobalt corner ft. Trish Saywell: 6:05 Matt talks Cobalt 27 IPO: 15:25 Lukas Lundin at the Canadian Mining Symposium: 18:20 Articles referenced: First Cobalt proposes mergers with Cobalt One and CobalTech: http://www.northernminer.com/news/first-cobalt-proposes-friendly-mergers-cobalt-one-cobaltech/1003787470/ Cobalt 27 IPO provides ‘pure play’ exposure to cobalt: http://www.northernminer.com/news/cobalt-27-wants-offer-pure-play-battery-metal-exposure/1003787537/ Castle Silver Resources markets cobalt potential to Asian buyers: http://www.northernminer.com/news/castle-silver-resources-markets-cobalt-potential-asia/1003787103/ Robert Friedland: Celebrating a lifetime of achievement: www.northernminer.com/people-in-mini…nt/1003785716/ Clean Teq’s Syerston project could produce cobalt for more than twenty years: http://www.northernminer.com/news/clean-teqs-syerston-project-produce-cobalt-twenty-years/1003787383/ Robert Friedland, Lukas Lundin, David Garofalo and Kelvin Dushnisky to be featured speakers at TNM’s Canadian Mining Symposium in London: www.northernminer.com/stock-markets-…on/1003784168/ Cobalt ‘moving into a global deficit’: www.northernminer.com/news/everyone-…lt/1003786965/ Lithium producers ramp up: www.northernminer.com/news/lithium-p…es/1003786089/ Music Credits: Energy Recorded by Bensound (www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/energy) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0 Isolated Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Beach Bum Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/