AVZ Discussion 2022
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MoneyBags1348
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Is it too late for me to change Paddy and Shawn’s names to Cashy and Nells?
Winenut
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Frank
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*Speaking of Zambia, Which is progressing to Benefit their Electric Battery ambitions atm, showing the DRC how it's done, I see
New Mining Projects in Zambia
This will be the highest Nickel producing mine In Africa | Electric vehicle batteries to benefit
Zambia now boasts of being the largest copper and Nickel producer in AfricaInsane! Thousands of Tesla electric cars are on the way to Australia
If you’ve noticed more Tesla electric cars on the roads since the EV maker began delivering its latest model to Australian drivers, get ready to see even more.
The Tesla Model Y went on sale in June in Australia after a long wait.
We estimated as many as 12,000 were ordered within days of the Model Y order page opening.
Now, a record number of Tesla Model 3s and Model Ys have been snapped lined up Shanghai dockyards ahead of a massive influx, as well as more than 300 Model 3s at Fremantle docks.
“Glovis loaded with Teslas just left last week, and this week the dock was once again filled with more Teslas,” said Giga Shanghai watcher Wu Wa posting a video of more than 8,000 cars at dock in China on Friday (see the end of this article for the video.)
Images shared by him on Twitter show the thousands of Tesla cars awaiting shipping at South Port terminal, Shanghai, with many built-in right-hand drive for markets such as Australia and New Zealand.
“We noticed that most of the cars in this batch are right-hand steering, and we understand from the factory that most of the cars in this batch are aimed at the AU market,” said Wu Wa.
And it’s a record number, according to Sawyer Merritt, a Tesla investor who posts regularly on the EV maker. He says he counted more than 8,800 cars waiting at the dock.
“This batch of Teslas above beat the previous record of about 7,000 that were there in mid-July for export.
This to me is partly an indication that production output is indeed increasing following the recent Giga Shanghai factory upgrades. INSANE amount of Teslas!” he said in a follow up post.
Tesla shipping tracker Vedaprime says there are as many as 7,000 to 8,000 Tesla cars already on ships headed for Australia.
“It’s just the craziest thing,” said Vedaprime in a note to The Driven.
To deal with the massive influx, Tesla is decentralising its delivery processes, and ships are headed to Port Kembla, the Port of Melbourne as well as, for the first time, straight to Fremantle in Western Australia.
Dodge Is Retiring Its Charger and Challenger Muscle Cars.
An EV Is Coming Next.
Chrysler/Dodge parent Stellantis said it is retiring the gasoline-powered versions of its iconic Charger and Challenger muscle cars, but announced one final lineup of gas-fueled models for 2023.
Those classic American muscle cars have been around since the 1960s.
The Charger might have been made most famous by the 1980s TV show and 2005 film The Dukes of Hazzard.
Protagonists Bo and Luke Duke drove around in a 1969 orange Dodge Charger.
CashKing
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What do you do when the weather is shit in Perth? Pack up the family and head down south to the shack for even shittier weather
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Did you take the Kia ?
DiscoDanNZ
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Except with AVZ in suspension the reality of being able to afford a shrink is more like this...
Frank
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The stakes of the DRC presidency at the head of SADC
On Thursday, August 18, the DRC will take over the baton of command of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) at the end of the 42nd summit of SADC Heads of State and Government to be held in Kinshasa.
President Felix Tshisekedi will succeed his counterpart Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President of the Republic of Malawi who has assumed the SADC Chair since August 17, 2021 at the 41st SADC Summit held in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Already on September 8, 2009, during the 29th summit of the Southern African Development Community, at the Cité de l'Union Africaine in Kinshasa, the South African Jacob ZUMA had passed the standard of management of the organization under regional to the Congolese Joseph Kabila for one year.
This one-year rotating presidency is part of the routine of international organizations.
The Summit will be held under the theme “Promoting industrialization through agribusiness, mineral beneficiation and regional value chains for inclusive and resilient economic growth”.
The theme of the 2022 Summit is an attempt to strengthen the implementation of the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) 2020-2030 which aims to further deepen Southern Africa's regional integration and foster the development in support of the pillar of industrial development and market integration.
Issues and challenges
The Summit will review progress in regional integration in line with SADC aspirations as outlined in the RISDP 2020-2030 and Vision 2050, which envision a peaceful, inclusive, competitive, upper-middle-income industrialized region where all citizens enjoy sustainable economic well-being and justice.
Substantive matters are generally dealt with by other structures of the organization.
But the arrival of a country to the presidency should not be seen as a miracle moment.
Among the challenges awaiting Congolese institutional governance, we can cite health, but above all economic issues, maritime security in the sub-region, the free trade zone in southern Africa, which must be supported by the free zone.
But also the establishment of specialized agencies and their enforcement mechanism.
Particular attention will also be paid to the SADC rapid intervention force (at SAMIM) deployed in Mozambique, whose mandate has just been extended by three months to fight terrorism.
SAMIM has three thousand soldiers from the DRC and seven other SADC member countries.
The DRC will therefore have to assume its leadership role by taking the measure of all these challenges.
Understanding SADC
SADC in its present form was established in August 1992 in Namibia. It brings together 16 countries.
It is in particular countries of Southern Africa South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland.
Then we have in the part of the Indian Ocean, the Seychelles Islands, Mauritius, Madagascar and the Comoros and more in the center-east of Africa: Tanzania and the DRC officially admitted in 1997.
According to its charter, SADC's objectives include achieving development and economic growth, as well as fostering and defending peace and security.
This is how several experts in international relations analyze the accession of the DRC to SADC as first and foremost a strategic choice of ex-president Laurent-Désiré Kabila at a time when he was threatened militarily by his ex-allies.
SADC member countries, notably South Africa and Zimbabwe at the time of Mugabe, then sent troops to the DRC to support the Congolese army.
www.mediacongo.net
*Definition of beneficiation
: the treatment of raw material to improve physical or chemical properties especially in preparation for smelting.
On Thursday, August 18, the DRC will take over the baton of command of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) at the end of the 42nd summit of SADC Heads of State and Government to be held in Kinshasa.
President Felix Tshisekedi will succeed his counterpart Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President of the Republic of Malawi who has assumed the SADC Chair since August 17, 2021 at the 41st SADC Summit held in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Already on September 8, 2009, during the 29th summit of the Southern African Development Community, at the Cité de l'Union Africaine in Kinshasa, the South African Jacob ZUMA had passed the standard of management of the organization under regional to the Congolese Joseph Kabila for one year.
This one-year rotating presidency is part of the routine of international organizations.
The Summit will be held under the theme “Promoting industrialization through agribusiness, mineral beneficiation and regional value chains for inclusive and resilient economic growth”.
The theme of the 2022 Summit is an attempt to strengthen the implementation of the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) 2020-2030 which aims to further deepen Southern Africa's regional integration and foster the development in support of the pillar of industrial development and market integration.
Issues and challenges
The Summit will review progress in regional integration in line with SADC aspirations as outlined in the RISDP 2020-2030 and Vision 2050, which envision a peaceful, inclusive, competitive, upper-middle-income industrialized region where all citizens enjoy sustainable economic well-being and justice.
Substantive matters are generally dealt with by other structures of the organization.
But the arrival of a country to the presidency should not be seen as a miracle moment.
Among the challenges awaiting Congolese institutional governance, we can cite health, but above all economic issues, maritime security in the sub-region, the free trade zone in southern Africa, which must be supported by the free zone.
But also the establishment of specialized agencies and their enforcement mechanism.
Particular attention will also be paid to the SADC rapid intervention force (at SAMIM) deployed in Mozambique, whose mandate has just been extended by three months to fight terrorism.
SAMIM has three thousand soldiers from the DRC and seven other SADC member countries.
The DRC will therefore have to assume its leadership role by taking the measure of all these challenges.
Understanding SADC
SADC in its present form was established in August 1992 in Namibia. It brings together 16 countries.
It is in particular countries of Southern Africa South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland.
Then we have in the part of the Indian Ocean, the Seychelles Islands, Mauritius, Madagascar and the Comoros and more in the center-east of Africa: Tanzania and the DRC officially admitted in 1997.
According to its charter, SADC's objectives include achieving development and economic growth, as well as fostering and defending peace and security.
This is how several experts in international relations analyze the accession of the DRC to SADC as first and foremost a strategic choice of ex-president Laurent-Désiré Kabila at a time when he was threatened militarily by his ex-allies.
SADC member countries, notably South Africa and Zimbabwe at the time of Mugabe, then sent troops to the DRC to support the Congolese army.
www.mediacongo.net
*Definition of beneficiation
: the treatment of raw material to improve physical or chemical properties especially in preparation for smelting.
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Samus
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Probably as good a time as any one of the Council of Ministers meetings over the past 12+ months.
Someone on twitter even said:
News to me but AVZ is his baby! He's neglecting his f'ing baby ffs!!
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MoneyBags1348
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What bit was it that Nigel said that you didn’t get Max? “The bit he said after listen carefully!”
MoneyBags1348
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Apparently John25 went to see his doctor and told him he was worried because he was starting to think he was a moth. His doctor said “Oh John, it’s not me you need to see, I think it’s a psychiatrist”. John said “I know, but I was going past and I saw the light on”
Bin59
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Probably as good a time as any one of the Council of Ministers meetings over the past 12+ months.
Someone on twitter, even said:
News to me but AVZ is his baby! He's neglecting his f'ing baby ffs!!
Yes AVZ is his baby and as Felix will running the meetings this year he might like to show it off - SADC have been discussing EV’s & battery materials processing for a few years now and it would fit in well with this years “industrialisation of the region” theme.
Electric vehicle battery manufacturing: Why SADC needs to act now
All the minerals are here, so a golden opportunity exists if our governments provide incentives
SADC e-Mobility Outlook: Accelerating the Battery Manufacturing Value Chain
The predicted uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) around the world will continue to increase the demand for lithium-ion batteries. At the same time, the electrification of transport is estimated to create 10 million jobs worldwide.
saiia.org.za
The predicted uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) around the world will continue to increase the demand for lithium-ion batteries. At the same time, the electrification of transport is estimated to create 10 million jobs worldwide.
Summary
- Southern Africa is endowed with all the raw minerals required to produce lithium batteries. The minerals that are currently being mined in the region are predominantly exported, as raw material, to countries, outside of the continent, to manufacture lithium batteries.
- SADC has listed the battery energy storage sector as a priority value chain. It is important for stakeholders from the public and private sectors to collaborate and develop practical strategies that will accelerate the lithium battery manufacturing value chain.
- The predicted uptake of electric vehicles around the world will continue to increase the demand for lithium batteries while the electrification of transport is estimated to create 10 million jobs worldwide.
- There is a window of opportunity, over the next five years, for SADC member states to collaborate on initiatives and interventions that will enable them to competitively participate in value-added manufacturing across the entire lithium battery manufacturing value chain.
- The SADC region can use its mineral resources to transform from a commodity-driven economy to an industrialised manufacturing-driven economy that creates jobs and alleviates poverty for its citizens.
- If SADC member states do not capitalise on the opportunity to manufacture lithium batteries for electric vehicles they will lose the opportunity for job creation in this value chain to other countries and regions.
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MoneyBags1348
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Old shrunken head is now mediating a dispute over the Tempe copper and cobalt mine between Gecamines and China’s CMOC so three suspect characters all in a room together fighting over the copper- cobalt mine. Hopefully he keeps his shrunken nose out of our mine, but I know he was mentioned in one of AVZ’s media releases saying he supports us and I emailed Nigel a year and a half ago about me thinking he was sus and the reply I got said he had been trying to clean up Gecamines. Now every time I clock on here, I’m eagerly awaiting to hear the latest good news on CAMI from Nells. Come on Nells, now you’ve got me and Wombie even more interested in what you’ve got to say than what Nigel or Felix have, God knows we’ve given them plenty of time, it’s your turn to shine girl!
Frank
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‘Inevitable’ – lithium prices are on the rise again
Battery metals expert Rodney Hooper says new lithium prices highs “are just around the corner” as demand kicks up a gear.While lithium prices have held up remarkably well over the past few months as other metals prices have tumbled, the next leg up could be just around the corner.
In S&P Platt’s latest market commentary battery grade carbonate was assessed at Yuan 480,500/t ($US70,785/t) on August 12; up Yuan 500/t ($US73/t) for the week.
Some trades were heard at Yuan 500,000/t – or $US73,650/t — Hooper says in a tweet.
Food for thought on the Road to Mining Manono Felix my friend
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Frank
If that’s your shack I’d love to see your house!What do you do when the weather is shit in Perth? Pack up the family and head down south to the shack for even shittier weather
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