Miner Moment #19: America's worrying lack of a battery-minerals supply chain ft Benchmark's Moores

Simon Moores, managing director of battery minerals advisory firm Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, appeared before a U.S. Senate committee for energy and minerals in February 2019 to once again sound the alarm on the lack of a domestic supply chain in the U.S. for the battery minerals lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite. (With Tesla's Gigafactory in Nevada being a notable exception.) The podcast presents 11 minutes of mining-related highlights from the 2.3-hour public hearing, and features comments from, in order of appearance: Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Simon Moores; Senator Joe Manchin III (D-West Virginia), ranking member of the committee; Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada); Ethan Zindler, head of Americas for Bloomberg New Energy Finance; and Senator Angus S. King, Jr. (D-Maine), The formal name of the the hearing is "Full Committee Hearing on the Outlook for Energy and Minerals Markets in the 116th Congress" and a link to the entire hearing on video is available at: https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/2/full-committee-hearing-to-examine-the-outlook-for-energy-and-minerals-markets-in-the-116th-congress Simon Moore's written testimony to the U.S. Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee is available at: https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=9BAC3577-C7A4-4D6D-A5AA-33ACDB97C233 Visit Benchmark Mineral Intelligence at www.benchmarkminerals.com. This podcast is sponsored by the Yukon Mining Alliance (www.yukonminingalliance.ca). Music Credits: "Jet Fueled Vixen" rhythm tracks by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/