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INFOGRAPHIC: Covid-19’s impact on cobalt supply, trade flows

It has been almost one year since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak and global economies are still recovering from the fallout. Fastmarkets analyzes the effects of the pandemic on global cobalt supply and trade flows.

December 2, 2020
By Susan Zou
Cobalt Global Trade flows

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