Libero Copper & Gold Corp at 121 Mining Investment London Conference Transcript
Obviously, before starting, plenty of forward-looking statements. But there was a lot of -- I enjoyed the conversation when we talked about all these different metals that are required for batteries, and we see this supply demand gap. But if we look at the fundamentals in all the cases except for copper and perhaps nickel, right, when we talk about 20 times more lithium, but we're only producing 100,000 tons a year, deposits are not a problem. In the case of rare earths, the deposits are not the problem.
In the case of cobalt, deposits are not the problem. It's how long does it take to get those projects into production because it takes five -- three to five years to develop an electric vehicle or a battery plant, but it can take 20 years to get a project up and running. So that is the big supply-demand gap in the majority of the metals. But the kind of elephants in the room are copper and nickel because we've been mining copper since the bronze age, and we haven't been exploring it. And now we need two to
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