Pat Risner, president of South32's Hermosa Project, describes the site's role in supplying domestic battery-grade minerals for electric vehicles.
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“And it's also the only advanced mine development that could produce a battery-grade manganese to provide battery-grade manganese for the emerging U.S. And North American electric vehicle supply chain.”
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