[1] The mine has reserves amounting to 3.8 million tonnes of ore grading 0.5% cobalt.

[5] Construction on the mine ceased just five months later as cobalt prices stayed low, though it may reopen if they go up again.

[6] Manufacture of electric cars drives increased demand for cobalt in the United States.

This has prompted the federal government to prioritise extraction of domestic cobalt reserves (as well as lithium and other critical minerals).

[7] Most cobalt on the global market comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and is controlled by China.