https://www.canadianminingjournal.com/news/kobold-metals-employs-big-data-scientists-in-pursuit-of-battery-metals/
KoBold Metals is investing in battery metal projects using big data and scientific computing with capital from billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
The privately held California-based company has also lured David Broughton, the world-renowned expert in sediment-hosted copper deposits, to lead its hydrothermal systems team.
“We have the overwhelming majority of his time,” Josh Goldman, KoBold Metals’ chief financial and technical officer, says of Broughton in a telephone interview. “David is very substantially involved.”
Broughton worked for Ivanplats, now Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; NYSE: IVN), from January 2008 through October 2016, and was co-awarded the PDAC’s Thayer Lindsley and AME’s Colin Spence awards for world-class discoveries at Kamoa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Platreef in South Africa.
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