'The Green Economy is Hungry for Copper'"With the possible exception of gold, no other metal has caused as much destruction as copper. In the coming years, we’ll need more of it than ever."
As detailed in 'The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It', the global demand for copper is soaring as the metal is crucial for the energy transition, spurring both legal and illegal activities and causing both environmental damage and significant security issues:
https://www.wired.com/story/power-metal-green-economy-is-hungry-for-copper/ The article suggests that addressing the demand for copper, possibly by rethinking how we approach transportation and infrastructure, might be a more effective long-term solution.
With the potential to play a key role in meeting the growing global demand for copper, Libero Copper's (LBC.v LBCMF) Mocoa Project has an inferred resource of 4.6 billion pounds of copper and 511 million pounds of molybdenum.
As one of the largest undeveloped resources of its kind in South America, the project's development is crucial not only for LBC but also for Colombia's renewable energy goals and to the global supply of copper.
For more information, refer to this deep dive on LBC:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wealthsimple_Penny/comments/1eg83xf/libero_copper_gold_corp_lbcv_expands_mocoa/ Posted on Behalf of Libero Copper and Gold Corp.