Pan Asia Metals is joining the list of lithium brine explorers after picking up a massive chunk of prime real estate with its Tama Atacama project in Chile.
Iron ore shipments of 43.3 million tonnes were six per cent lower than previous corresponding quarter because of the ore derailment in late December and weather disruptions.
Copper is shaping up as a star for the mining giant,as it edges closer to making a final call on its nickel business in West Australia.
The federal government declared “the road to net zero runs through Australia’s resources sector”,and Rinehart will be hoping for a decent spoonful from the profit pot at the end of that road.
America’s national security and the health of the planet depended on commodities managed by Australia,Caroline Kennedy told Paydirt Battery Minerals Conference in Perth.
Dart Mining has extended the lithium strike length at its budding Boones Dyke prospect to over 1km with samples grading up to 2.35 per cent lithium oxide.
With wine in hand,Dollar Bill has turned his gaze towards the role inventories played in the bursting of the lithium bubble – and the potential for recovery.
Two of Australia’s biggest banks are backing Gina Rinehart’s favourite lithium miner Liontown Resources,signalling confidence in a pummeled sector.
Wesfarmers and its Chilean partner SQM are bullish about lithium’s future despite low prices causing current players to curtail growth plans.
Vulcan,which is backed by mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting,plans to extract lithium from underground reservoirs of hot brine from Germany’s Upper Rhine Valley.
Nickel was a rising star of Australia’s battery-driven green energy mining boom,but then events in Indonesia changed everything.