RE:Zinc could see huge demand for battery backupWow. Great articles jrj90620 !
Meet Zinc, the Cheap Metal Gunning for Lithium Battery Crown
California Sees Zinc As Likely Successor To Lithium-Ion In Energy Storage
Even more reason for Tongling Nonferrous Metals to want to ultimately own this entire project. (ie. takeover bid).
ZincX's Akie project had over 5 billion pounds of zinc in it (and a billion pounds of lead).
Tongling bought out Corriente Resources (copper deposits in Ecuador) for $680 million.