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McKinsey's Hoffman highlights the "critical" in critical metals

Ken Hoffman, co-head of the EV battery materials research group at McKinsey & Co has put the “critical” in critical minerals via his keynote presentation at the 2023 PDAC conference in Toronto, Canada which include one of the most comprehensive data dumps of the challenges the mining sector faces to support the decarbonisation of human activity.

Paul Harris in Toronto, Canada
 Ken Hoffman of McKinsey & Co

Ken Hoffman of McKinsey & Co

"We produce about 1TW of batteries globally, and we need to get to 400TW. It shows the astronomical amount of increase we are going to need for a sustainable future. The challenge is we are going to need...

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