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Coal is out, batteries are in and miners still win

The world is trying to shift away from using fossil fuels, and the mining industry couldn’t be happier. Nick Bowlin is a freelance journalist and correspondent for High Country News. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his trip to a mining conference, which revealed an industry excited about the lithium, manganese and zinc that will be needed to fuel a clean-energy revolution. His article “A Good Prospect” was published by The Drift.