Efforts to wean the world from burning fossil fuels for transportation and energy generation will drive demand for commodities for years to come, paving the way for miners of so-called green metals to play a crucial part in solving some of the planet’s biggest problems, says Canadian miner Ivanhoe Mines.
In its second sustainability report, co-chairmen Robert Friedland and Yufeng ‘Miles’ Sun say that zero-emission, energy-efficient transportation, and the distribution and storage of grid-scale volumes of clean, renewable energy, will require new, long-term sources of platinum, palladium, rhodium, nickel, and especially copper.