India-Zambia talks on critical minerals stall over mining rights: sources

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“New Delhi is making efforts to restart discussions with Zambia, ‌but the concern is inactive uncertain,” 1 of the sources said

Updated - April 16, 2026 04:27 p.m. IST - NEW DELHI

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“India's talks with Zambia implicit captious minerals mining person stalled amid a deficiency of assurances from Lusaka connected mining ‌rights,” 2 sources acquainted with the substance told Reuters.

India past twelvemonth received an allocation ⁠of 9,000 quadrate km (3,474.92 quadrate miles) to research cobalt — a cardinal constituent successful batteries for electrical vehicles and mobile ‌phones — arsenic good arsenic copper, wide utilized successful powerfulness generation, electronics and construction.

Published - April 16, 2026 04:26 p.m. IST

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