title: 40 years of Congress and IM remains at the forefront of your world
abstract: IM Editor Siobhan Lismore-Scott discusses the upcoming Congress in Vancouver, Tesla's Gigafactory, Russia and Ukraine and perlite and vermiculite markets
  
  So far Tesla has not revealed where it will be sourcing its raw materials from, although CEO Elon Musk - viewed by some as the ''Steve Jobs of electric vehicles'' - took to Twitter to defend criticism that using graphite in batteries was environmentally unsound.
  
  ''But if Crimea is gone, then that sector is basically gone,'' said [Laurent 
journal: Industrial Minerals