{"id":604441,"date":"2023-09-18T17:34:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=604441"},"modified":"2023-09-19T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T03:53:27","slug":"indias-ntpc-mining-arm-to-explore-battery-minerals-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-ntpc-mining-arm-to-explore-battery-minerals-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s NTPC mining arm to explore battery minerals overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian power producer NTPC&#8217;s mining arm will explore overseas sourcing of battery minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel, three sources told Reuters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The South Asian country, among the world&#8217;s top greenhouse gas emitters, has been pursuing pacts with other countries to secure key minerals in resource-rich countries such as Australia, Argentina and Chile. India aims to be a net zero emitter of greenhouse gases by 2070.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are keen to diversify into critical minerals, specifically lithium, nickel and cobalt,&#8221; one of the sources in the company said. The sources did not specify which countries India will be talking to, to explore battery minerals sourcing. <\/p>\n<p>The Indian government in July listed identified 30 minerals, including nickel, titanium, vanadium and tungsten as critical to drive its clean energy push. <\/p>\n<p>NTPC Mining will also explore mining uranium in India, the sources said. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of NTPC rose as much as 2% after Reuters reported on the company&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian power producer NTPC&#8217;s mining arm will explore overseas sourcing of battery minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel, three sources told Reuters on Monday. The South Asian country, among the world&#8217;s top greenhouse gas emitters, has been pursuing pacts with other countries to secure key minerals in resource-rich countries such as Australia, Argentina and Chile. India aims to be a net zero emitter of greenhouse gases by 2070. &#8220;We are keen to diversify into critical minerals, specifically lithium, nickel and cobalt,&#8221; one of the sources in the company said. The sources did not specify which countries India will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604441","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}