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His father was a coal miner, but those jobs, he said, are scarcer and less stable than before.

Lithium miners have benefited from Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology halting production at one of its mines earlier this year, which reduced supply and stabilized prices.

That holding has stopped the miner from buying back shares due to an Australian government-imposed cap on the state-owned Chinese company’s interest.

At his press conference this week, Hichilema accused illegal artisanal miners of being behind the violence as his government was trying to crack down on this unregistered work.

The China-backed miner derives 74% of its total revenue as of 2024 from the metal and is increasing its copper assets, making it an ideal proxy to copper markets, she says.