Inside the Quiet Billionaire War for Africa’s Rare Earths
How cobalt, lithium, and quiet capital are redrawing Africa’s global alliances In a remote stretch of Zambia’s Copperbelt, a new kind of prospector is drilling—not with pickaxes and payloaders, but with algorithms. KoBold Metals, a California-based startup backed by venture capital from Breakthrough Energy Ventures (whose limited partners include Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos), is […]
