Chief executive Kurt House noted the addition of lithium to the portfolio of battery metals KoBold wants to mine follows successes in exploring for nickel and copper in Canada and Zambia.
“Two years ago, we hired lithium luminary Prof Robert Linnen to be KoBold’s Chief Geologist, Lithium, and since his arrival, we’ve been studying the fundamentals of lithium geochemistry,” House said. “We’re now deploying those insights [and] over the next decade, KoBold aims to develop enough new lithium to power hundreds of millions of electric vehicles.”
The company, which uses machine learning to look for deposits of critical minerals, identified earlier in the year a lithium prospect in a region of the Baie James in Canada. The area in which it found it was previously thought to have no economic lithium deposits.
One of the Silicon Valley firm’s main objectives is closing the supply-gap needed to electrify transportation,…
