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https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/bill-gates-backed-company-to-hunt-for-cobalt-near-glencore-mine/ar-BB16qJ8W
A startup backed by a group of tycoons including Bill Gates plans to use data-crunching algorithms to search for cobalt near a Canadian nickel mine owned by Glencore Plc.
Kobold Metals has acquired rights to an area of about 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) roughly the size of New York City in northern Quebec, according to Chief Executive Officer Kurt House. It’s the first such foray by the company to become public.
Shareholders of Kobold Metals include Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Norwegian oil major Equinor ASA and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a fund backed by Gates and a dozen other tycoons including Jeff Bezos, Ray Dalio and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News.