US SENATOR MURKOWSKI LAUNCHES AMERICAN MINERAL SECURITY ACT AT BENCHMARK MINERALS SUMMIT IN WASHINGTON DC. 5th May 2019 Excerpts: SENATOR LISA MURKOWSKI SAID: ”Last year we imported at least 50 percent of 48 minerals, including 100 percent of 18 of them. That should worry everyone, particularly because it is happening at the same time that demand, for everything from graphite and lithium to cobalt and nickel, is about to skyrocket.”
SIMON MOORES, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF BENCHMARK MINERAL INTELLIGENCE SAID: “Graphite is the most extreme example with no flake graphite mining and anode production compared to China’s 51% and 100% of the world’s total, respectively. And its a similar story with nickel: under 1% mined in the US and zero capacity for nickel sulfate.”
