{"id":430491,"date":"2021-08-13T08:45:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430491"},"modified":"2021-08-13T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T04:30:38","slug":"gates-and-bezos-backed-firm-to-pay-15-mn-to-hunt-metals-for-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gates-and-bezos-backed-firm-to-pay-15-mn-to-hunt-metals-for-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates and Bezos-backed firm to pay $15 mn to hunt metals for EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KoBold Metals, a mineral exploration company backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio, has entered into a joint venture with London-based mining firm Bluejay to search for nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum used in electric vehicles on Greenland. <\/p>\n<p>KoBold will spend $15 million through 2024 to help Bluejay locate natural resources as part of its Disko-Nuussuaq project in Central West Greenland. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Disko region has seen the rare convergence of events in earth&#8217;s history that could have resulted in forming a world-class battery metal deposit,&#8221; said Kurt House, CEO of KoBold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KoBold Metals, a mineral exploration company backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio, has entered into a joint venture with London-based mining firm Bluejay to search for nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum used in electric vehicles on Greenland. KoBold will spend $15 million through 2024 to help Bluejay locate natural resources as part of its Disko-Nuussuaq project in Central West Greenland. &#8220;The Disko region has seen the rare convergence of events in earth&#8217;s history that could have resulted in forming a world-class battery metal deposit,&#8221; said Kurt House, CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}