Covalent confirmed on Thursday it had met Wesfarmers’ mid-year guidance for the plant, an important part of WA’s rocky path towards expanding its State-supporting mining industry into secondary processing.
Sean Smith
Albemarle experienced an incident at its lithium-processing plant in Chile last week, which is the subject of an investigation, the latest threat to global supply of the battery metal.
James Attwood
A sharp rebound in Mineral Resources’ share price has seen the company’s top shareholder, besides Chris Ellison, cash out over the past week to the tune of $71 million.
Adrian Rauso
Shares in local lithium majors have been turbocharged by news a chunk of the battery commodity’s supply is set to come out of the global market.
A Chinese lithium-ion battery manufacturer has joined Liontown Resources’ substantial capital raising a day after Australian taxpayers tipped in $50 million.
Liontown Resources boss Tony Ottaviano has issued an apology over comments he made about largest backer Gina Rinehart’s decision to sit-out a $286 million capital raising.
Daniel Newell
Gina Rinehart stayed on the sidelines of a bumper Liontown Resources raising anchored by a $50 million investment from the federal taxpayer.
Mineral Resources has named a new appointee to a key board committee following the shock exit of cricket legend Justin Langer.
An agonisingly long lithium price rout has revealed a united goal between the bosses of two competing WA lithium miners who want to see an end to “debilitating” volatility upending their industry.
Simone Grogan
IGO’s implicit pleas for partner Tianqi Lithium to mothball the perennially problematic Kwinana refinery have fallen on deaf ears.
Local gold miners are making the annual pilgrimage to their mecca with piggy banks bursting at the seams.
Their offices were walking distance apart. Yet Tony Rovira had never met Gina Rinehart when Australia’s richest woman and her Chilean partner lobbed a takeover bid for Azure Minerals in 2023.
Mark Drummond
Wildcat Resources has been accused of counting a mining tenement it does not control in plans for one of WA’s last remaining lithium developments.
The conglomerate’s Covalent Lithium joint venture with Chile’s SQM has completed construction of its lithium hydroxide plant in Kwinana, refocusing investor attention on the all-important commissioning.
The annual poll of the world’s best mining destinations by Canada’s Fraser Institute has the State falling from 4th to 17th place in 2024 on regulatory and policy concerns cited by respondents.
IGO has effectively determined there is no value left in a troubled lithium hydroxide plant at Kwinana, but division at the top of the business is delaying a call on what should be done with it next.
The boss of Australia’s largest lithium miner thinks the Albanese Government should not prioritise purchasing lithium for its $1.2 billion critical minerals stockpile.
Mineral Resources capped off a tumultuous financial year by reaching revised iron and lithium targets, but a mountain of debt still casts a shadow over the Chris Ellison-led company.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
Liontown Resources expects FY26 will be a ‘transition year’ as it moves underground at Kathleen Valley in the northern Goldfields and awaits a sustained rebound in prices for the key battery material.
Mineral Resources, PLS, Liontown Resources and IGO have recovered $6 billion of value since speculation of production cutbacks in China lifted lithium prices off last month’s lows.
A bee scientist called upon by a State Government appeals office has taken the sting out of claims against Rio Tinto’s lithium waste processing plans.
Acquisitions are on the cards, Liontown Resources has revealed, spectacularly turning the table on suggestions its burdened lithium mine could soon be ceded to Gina Rinehart or mothballed.
Presentation notes to be used by new chair Malcolm Bundey in meetings with investors and proxy advisers this week say Mr Ellison’s planned exit timeline is being ‘reviewed’.
The man running Wesfarmers’ new lithium operations will shift to a recently-vacated chief operating officer role at Liontown Resources, which is also on the hunt to replace its exiting finance chief.
