A cewar wani rahoto daga MINING SEE a ranar 30 ga Maris, 2021, kamfanin haƙar ma'adinai na Australiya da Finland Latitude 66 Cobalt ya sanar da cewa kamfanin ya gano mafi girma na huɗu a Turai a gabashin Lapland, Finland. Babban Ma'adinan Cobalt shine wurin da aka ajiye mafi girman ma'aunin cobalt a ƙasashen EU.
Wannan sabon binciken ya ƙarfafa matsayin Scandinavia a matsayin mai samar da kayan masarufi. Daga cikin manyan ma'adinan cobalt guda 20 a Turai, guda 14 suna cikin Finland, guda 5 suna cikin Sweden, sannan guda 1 yana cikin Spain. Finland ita ce babbar mai samar da karafa da sinadarai a Turai.
Cobalt muhimmin abu ne na albarkatun ƙasa don ƙera wayoyin hannu da kwamfutoci, kuma ana iya amfani da shi har ma don yin igiyoyin guitar. Bukatar cobalt tana ƙaruwa sosai, musamman batirin da ake amfani da shi a cikin motocin lantarki, waɗanda galibi suna ɗauke da kilogiram 36 na nickel, kilogiram 7 na lithium, da kilogiram 12 na cobalt. A cewar ƙididdiga daga Hukumar Tarayyar Turai (Hukumar Tarayyar Turai), a cikin shekaru goma na biyu na ƙarni na 21, kasuwar batirin Turai za ta cinye kusan Yuro biliyan 250 (dala biliyan 293 na Amurka). Yawancin waɗannan batirin a halin yanzu ana samarwa ne a Asiya. Hukumar Tarayyar Turai tana ƙarfafa kamfanonin Turai su samar da batura, kuma akwai ayyukan samar da batura da yawa da ake ci gaba da yi. Hakazalika, Tarayyar Turai kuma tana ƙarfafa amfani da kayan da aka samar ta hanyar da ta dace, kuma Kamfanin Mining na Latitude 66 Cobalt shi ma yana amfani da wannan manufar dabarun Tarayyar Turai don tallatawa.
"Muna da damar saka hannun jari a masana'antar hakar ma'adinai a Afirka, amma wannan ba abu ne da muke son yi ba. Misali, ban tsammanin manyan kamfanonin kera motoci za su gamsu da halin da ake ciki a yanzu ba," in ji Russell Delroy, memba na kwamitin gudanarwa na kamfanin. A cikin wata sanarwa. (Global Geology and Mineral Information Network)