Various articles point to Tesla's China Gigafactory being open for production this November.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/17/tesla-gf3-ahead-of-schedule-july-17th-update/

Model 3s produced in the first phase of the Shanghai plant will use a global supply chain, but will be continuously optimized to improve efficiencies and drive down costs. Tesla is still on the lookout for partners to help in that ongoing evolution.

https://electrek.co/2019/07/17/tesla-model-3-production-gigafactory-3-november-morgan-stanley/

Morgan Stanley visited China to do some channel checks on suppliers for the Tesla Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai in order to determine when they could start production.

They expect that Model 3 production at Gigafactory 3 as soon as November.

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Below is a 61 page annual report from Mining Association of Canada 2018

Alan Coutts, Noront is listed as director for Mining Assc. of Canada

https://mining.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Annual-Report-2018-English-FINAL.pdf

Beyond advocacy, MAC’s ongoing sustainability work continued to progress and be recognized in 2018. Our made-in-Canada Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) initiative continued to expand globally.

This award-winning mining sustainability standard is now being implemented in six countries on five continents, including Finland, Argentina, Botswana, the Philippines and, as of March of this year, Spain. MAC freely shares our TSM program with these countries to help improve the environmental and social performance as a way of contributing to improved performance across our industry.

Recognition of TSM is growing and one example of this is the Yearbook of Global Climate Action for 2018, a publication put out by United Nations Climate Change, which profiled TSM. ......

Through 2018 MAC also remained involved in supporting the development of responsible supply chains for metals and minerals.

As part of this effort, MAC worked closely with ResponsibleSteel and other partners to help advance their work and to ensure that MAC member facilities participating in TSM are well positioned to seamlessly feed into ResponsibleSteel supply chains.....

National Mining Week In conjunction with partners Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, MAC played a prominent role in the fifth annual Mineral Outlook Dialogue Conference held in Ottawa in May 2018.

The focus of the 2018 installment was the development of NRCan’s Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan (CMMP), a MAC supported initiative that seeks to raise Canadians’ awareness of the importance of the minerals sector, respond to ongoing and emerging challenges, and help position Canada for opportunities offered by an evolving economy. The final CMMP, including targeted Action Plans, is set to be finalized at the July 2019 installment of the annual federal/provincial Energy and Mines Ministers Conference.

Participation in International Mining Fora Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF).

In 2018, MAC continued to prioritize engagement with the IGF. This engagement included both a participation in the IGF AGM and direct engagement with the IGF secretariat as part of planning for the AGM. The engagement with the secretariat focused on ensuring that the content delivered at the AGM contained balanced perspectives and adequate representation of industry views.

The IGF’s AGM brings together representatives from over 70 national governments from around the world to address a range of mining related issues such as fiscal and tax policy, tailings, mine closure, local procurement and responsible sourcing to name a few. As part of MAC’s participation in the forum, we worked with the IGF to organize a panel during the plenary session to provide the delegates with a state of play on responsible sourcing.

The panel included MAC, OECD, Tesla, IISD and the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources.

This panel also represented the first opportunity for MAC to engage directly with Tesla which compliments engagement already underway with brands such as Apple, Microsoft and BMW to advance responsible sourcing markets for metals and minerals.