KoBold Metals Co-founders Kurt House and Josh Goldman published an op-ed in IEEE Spectrum discussing the company’s use of cutting-edge technologies to discover and develop the critical minerals needed to power our clean energy future.
“We’re trying to transform mineral exploration from a manual, judgment-guided, trial-and-error process into a data-driven and scalable science. It’s the mother of all needle-in-a-haystack problems: Find the significant minable deposits of cobalt, copper, lithium, and nickel resting anywhere from 100 to 2,000 meters deep in the Earth’s surface.”