{"id":13929,"date":"2026-05-14T18:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/13929\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:04:19","slug":"nextsource-welcomes-german-team-to-molo-mine-as-berlin-targets-critical-mineral-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/13929\/","title":{"rendered":"NextSource welcomes German team to Molo Mine as Berlin targets critical mineral security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0ddda9615f355f70784e7f74acd9bc9e.webp\" alt=\"NextSource welcomes German team to Molo Mine as Berlin targets critical mineral security\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"720\" width=\"867\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> NextSource welcomes German team to Molo Mine as Berlin targets critical mineral security Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/NEXT.to\" data-ylk=\"slk:NextSource Materials Inc. (TSX:NEXT, OTCQB:NSRCF);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NextSource Materials Inc. (TSX&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NextSource Materials Inc. (TSX:NEXT, OTCQB:NSRCF)<\/a> received a delegation from Germany&#8217;s Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources this week at its Molo Graphite Mine in southern Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The BGR, as the institute is known, assessed Molo as part of an independent study on Madagascar&#8217;s graphite production sector funded by Germany&#8217;s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, NextSource said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Researchers evaluated the mine alongside conventional graphite operations elsewhere in the country, with Molo identified as a benchmark asset and potential supplier of natural graphite and anode material to Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The study is being conducted with the support of Madagascar&#8217;s Ministry of Mines, with findings to be reported back to the German government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Germany has placed critical raw materials at the centre of its industrial and energy policy, and natural graphite sits on the European Union&#8217;s Critical Raw Materials List. Berlin has committed significant capital to its diversification agenda, including a 1 billion euro raw materials fund that provides minority equity investments of up to 150 million euro in qualifying upstream mining and processing projects, alongside a broader 2.5 billion euro critical minerals investment framework developed with France and Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">NextSource is already commercially linked to German industry. In May 2021, the company signed a 10-year sales agreement with thyssenkrupp Materials Trading GmbH, a division of industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp AG, guaranteeing a minimum of 7,300 tonnes per year of SuperFlake graphite concentrate from Molo&#8217;s Phase 1 operations, with supply rising to as much as 35,000 tonnes annually if the mine expands to Phase 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NextSource welcomes German team to Molo Mine as Berlin targets critical mineral security Proactive uses images sourced from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,17084,17085,17080,17083,464,5,17079,17082,17078,17081],"class_list":{"0":"post-13929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-critical-mineral","10":"tag-critical-raw-materials","11":"tag-federal-institute-for-geosciences-and-natural-resources","12":"tag-federal-ministry-for-economic-cooperation-and-development","13":"tag-german-government","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-molo-mine","16":"tag-natural-graphite","17":"tag-nextsource","18":"tag-nextsource-materials-inc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}