The only people with any potential interest are China. Nobody else is going to throw away billions into this. COIDIC agreement is dead in the water by the looks of it. That is where it is at. Hanging by a very slender thread.
The iron ore price is in freefall. What happens next?
Iron ore prices slid to their lowest levels since April overnight, as speculation about Chinese steel production cuts delivered a hit to the Pilbara’s big iron ore miners."
"August 5, 2021 Glencore to return $2.8 bln to shareholders in 2021
LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Glencore (GLEN.L) will return $2.8 billion to shareholders in 2021 after soaring commodity prices helped the mining and trading company to a record performance for the first six months of the year, it said on Thursday."
Well done, but don't just return. Rather reassess in 12 months time when it is totally clear whether VRFB may the a "betamax" product that will leave little trace in history of energy storage.
The 'holy grail' of batteries: Scientists develop an 'iron-air' battery that stores electricity for days through rusting - and is a fraction of the cost of lithium-ion equivalents
'1/10th the cost of lithium-ion': Form Energy announces commercialization of iron-air battery
July 22nd, 2021
"Kitco News) - Boston-based Form Energy announced Thursday the battery chemistry of its first commercial product and a $200 million Series D financing round led by ArcelorMittal's XCarb™ innovation fund."
// At last the right tech to power the green revolution!!
SARS-CoV-2 Human Challenge Studies — Establishing the Model during an Evolving Pandemic List of authors. Garth Rapeport, M.B., B.Ch., Emma Smith, Ph.D., Anthony Gilbert, M.B., B.Ch., Andrew Catchpole, D.Phil., et al. July 21, 2021
Clever positioning. Now makes out to be one of the good guys, nobody is fooled. The drip drip negativity will be wheeled out again when he thinks his battered credibility has been salvaged.