Lithium
Analysis
Investing
How competing superpowers can be an investor’s friend
Ultimately, geopolitical tension is no reason for investors to rush for the exit. In fact, it might even be an opportunity.
- by Cameron Gleeson
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Opinion
Opinion
Once-in-a-generation opportunity for Australian resources is opening up
The compact agreed by Anthony Albanese and Joe Biden last week underscores the opportunity and potential risks created by America’s push to get less dependent on China for strategic resources.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Critical minerals players seek support to compete globally
Producers want government help to set up precincts with an industrial ecosystem to drive down costs.
- by Peter Milne
Allkem inks $15.7b deal with US rival to create lithium superpower
The Australian miner will combine with fellow lithium producer Livent to create the world’s third-biggest lithium producer in terms of future estimated capacity.
- by Simon Johanson
The explosive technology that could create batteries from seawater
Sodium battery technology has existed for decades, but has remained in the wings while lithium powers our phones and cars. That’s changing fast.
- by Angus Dalton
Why China could dominate the next big advance in batteries
China is positioning itself to command the next big innovation in rechargeable batteries: replacing lithium with sodium, a far cheaper and more abundant material.
- by Keith Bradsher
‘Not scaremongering’: Landowners fire back over WA mine exploration secrecy
WA Premier Mark McGowan says his government does not intend to change century-old mining exploration laws.
- by Hamish Hastie
Liontown rejects $5.5b takeover bid that sparks up lithium sector
West Australia’s Liontown Resources says the timing of the bid from one of the world’s largest lithium producers is opportunistic given “recent softness in companies exposed to the lithium sector”.
- by Simon Johanson
Lithium in short sellers’ sights as Hindenburg blows up tech stock
As Block fends off explosive allegations from short sellers Hindenburg Research, data illustrates how some sectors are attracting the interest of investors who are shorting.
- by Clancy Yeates
Ex-Tesla boss avoids prison over insider trading of lithium miner’s stock
The former head of Tesla’s Australian operations was sentenced to two years and six months prison after his conviction, but was released on a good behaviour bond.
- by Colin Kruger
Analysis
The Long and Short of It
Lithium batteries are in hot demand. Can miner Pilbara keep on trucking?
Lithium, the soft, silvery-white metal at the heart of the clean energy shift, is in hot demand these days. But the companies mining it have endured a tumultuous few years.
- by Nick Toscano