A cewar wani rahoto daga MINING SEE a ranar 30 ga Maris, 2021, kamfanin hakar ma'adinai na Australiya da Finland Latitude 66 Cobalt ya sanar da cewa kamfanin ya gano na hudu mafi girma a Turai a gabashin Lapland, Finland.Babban Cobalt Mine shine ajiya tare da mafi girman darajar cobalt a cikin ƙasashen EU.
Wannan sabon binciken ya ƙarfafa matsayin Scandinavia a matsayin mai samar da albarkatun kasa.Daga cikin 20 mafi girma na cobalt a Turai, 14 suna cikin Finland, 5 suna cikin Sweden, kuma 1 yana cikin Spain.Finland ita ce kasa mafi girma a Turai da ke samar da karafa da sinadarai.
Cobalt wani abu ne mai mahimmanci don kera wayoyin hannu da kwamfutoci, har ma ana iya amfani da shi wajen kera kirtani.Bukatar cobalt na karuwa sosai, musamman batura da ake amfani da su a cikin motocin lantarki, wanda gaba daya ya kunshi kilogiram 36 na nickel, kilo 7 na lithium, da kilo 12 na cobalt.Bisa kididdigar da Hukumar Tarayyar Turai (EU Commission) ta fitar, a cikin shekaru goma na biyu na karni na 21, kasuwar batir ta Turai za ta cinye kayayyakin batir na kimanin Euro biliyan 250 (dalar Amurka biliyan 293).Yawancin waɗannan batura a halin yanzu ana yin su duka a Asiya.Hukumar Tarayyar Turai tana ƙarfafa kamfanonin Turai su kera batura, kuma akwai ci gaba da ayyukan samar da batir.Hakazalika, Ƙungiyar Tarayyar Turai ta kuma ƙarfafa yin amfani da albarkatun da ake samarwa ta hanyar dawwama, kuma Kamfanin hakar ma'adinai na Latitude 66 Cobalt yana amfani da wannan dabarun 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.Alal misali, ba na jin manyan masu kera motoci za su gamsu da halin da ake ciki a yanzu,” in ji Russell Delroy, wani mamba a kwamitin gudanarwa na kamfanin.In ji sanarwar.(Global Geology and Mineral Information Network)