Robert Friedland “By 2025, which is tomorrow morning in geologic time, and at the scale in which we invest in mining, 630 million people, or 14 per cent of the world’s urban population, and 8 per cent of all the people walking on this planet, will live in 37 megacities,” he said.

“As you build those cities, not only are you wildly consumptive of copper and steel and iron and molybdenum, but look at the air. If you want to clean that air, the environmental metals are copper, platinum and palladium.”

“Africa is definitely open for business,” Mr. Friedland said, drawing applause from a room with hundreds of investors. “And it’s even greater to make history than it is to make money.”

Source: Globe and Mail